linux-kernel - [PATCH] input: allow SERIO=m even without EXPERT=y

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Message-Id: <1378147630-12471-1-git-send-email-teg@jklm.no>
Date:	Mon,  2 Sep 2013 20:47:10 +0200
From:	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
To:	linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] input: allow SERIO=m even without EXPERT=y

There is plenty of consumer hardware (e.g., mac books) that does not use
AT keyboards or PS/2 mice. It therefore makes sense for distro kernels
to build the related drivers as modules to avoid loading them on hardware
that does not need them. As such, these options should no longer be protected
by EXPERT.

Moreover, building these drivers as modules gets rid of the following ugly
error during boot:

[    2.337745] i8042: PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
[    3.439537] i8042: No controller found

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
---
 drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig | 4 ++--
 drivers/input/serio/Kconfig    | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig b/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
index 269d4c3..2d31cec 100644
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Input core configuration
 #
 menuconfig INPUT_KEYBOARD
-	bool "Keyboards" if EXPERT || !X86
+	bool "Keyboards"
 	default y
 	help
 	  Say Y here, and a list of supported keyboards will be displayed.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ config KEYBOARD_ATARI
 	  module will be called atakbd.
 
 config KEYBOARD_ATKBD
-	tristate "AT keyboard" if EXPERT || !X86
+	tristate "AT keyboard"
 	default y
 	select SERIO
 	select SERIO_LIBPS2
diff --git a/drivers/input/serio/Kconfig b/drivers/input/serio/Kconfig
index 1e691a3..39c869d 100644
--- a/drivers/input/serio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/input/serio/Kconfig
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Input core configuration
 #
 config SERIO
-	tristate "Serial I/O support" if EXPERT || !X86
+	tristate "Serial I/O support"
 	default y
 	help
 	  Say Yes here if you have any input device that uses serial I/O to
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ config SERIO
 if SERIO
 
 config SERIO_I8042
-	tristate "i8042 PC Keyboard controller" if EXPERT || !X86
+	tristate "i8042 PC Keyboard controller"
 	default y
 	depends on !PARISC && (!ARM || ARCH_SHARK || FOOTBRIDGE_HOST) && \
 		   (!SUPERH || SH_CAYMAN) && !M68K && !BLACKFIN && !S390 && \
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ config SERIO_MACEPS2
 	  module will be called maceps2.
 
 config SERIO_LIBPS2
-	tristate "PS/2 driver library" if EXPERT
+	tristate "PS/2 driver library"
 	depends on SERIO_I8042 || SERIO_I8042=n
 	help
 	  Say Y here if you are using a driver for device connected
-- 
1.8.4

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