[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "Input: allow deselecting serio drivers even without CONFIG_EXPERT" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Input: allow deselecting serio drivers even without CONFIG_EXPERT

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 27a676cdaf443e754dbef213fd0ae03a2e3bf674 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:38:30 -0700
Subject: Input: allow deselecting serio drivers even without CONFIG_EXPERT

commit bcd2623073e98f69f84720308db0b142c4da0bd6 upstream.

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 at jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.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 c0e11ecc..95f5bd3 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 55f2c22..93d4182 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
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ 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
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1.8.3.2