Re: 2.4.31 CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:41:10 BST, Nick Warne said:
> What exactly does CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV do?
> 
> I found that _not_setting it, 2.4.31 still looks for keyboard at boot:
> 
> Oct  9 10:41:49 kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
> Oct  9 10:41:50 kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
> 
> and doing a find/grep in the code reveals that CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV doesn't 
> seem to do anything anywhere except def/undef itself:
> 
> 
> [root@linux-2.4.31]# find . -name \*.h -exec grep -iHn "INPUT_KEYBDEV" {} \;

Try grepping through the *Makefiles* for that.  In many cases, a CONFIG_FOO
variable is used to control whether a given .c is compiled into a .o for
inclusion in the kernel.

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