Re: 2.5.70 hangs on boot

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:12:09AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

 > > This really wants fixing badly. The source of this problem seems to be
 > > people taking 2.4 configs (where CONFIG_INPUT=m was fine), and it all
 > > going pear-shaped when people make oldconfig.  I'm aware of the problems
 > > that oldconfig can't override variables set in .config, so how about 
 > > just renaming CONFIG_INPUT to something else ?
 > 
 > I'm considering CONFIG_INPUT_ADVANCED, which would default to 'n', like
 > with the font and parition config and if set to 'n', all the modules
 > needed for 2.4 functional compatibility would be automatically built in.
 > What do you think?

I don't see how this helps the situation. CONFIG_INPUT=m from a 2.4
config will still make CONFIG_VT not show up in the 2.5 config.

		Dave