2.5.47+ input as module broken

When CONFIG_INPUT=m is set the following occurs:

        ld -m elf_i386 -e stext -T arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.s arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o  init/built-in.o --start-group  usr/built-in.o  arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o  arch/i386/mm/built-in.o  arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o  kernel/built-in.o  mm/built-in.o  fs/built-in.o  ipc/built-in.o  security/built-in.o  crypto/built-in.o  lib/lib.a  arch/i386/lib/lib.a  drivers/built-in.o  sound/built-in.o  arch/i386/pci/built-in.o  net/built-in.o --end-group  -o vmlinux

drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x39b43): In function `kd_nosound':
: undefined reference to input_event' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x39b5c): In function kd_nosound':
: undefined reference to input_event' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x39c07): In function kd_mksound':
: undefined reference to input_event' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3a8a2): In function kbd_bh':
: undefined reference to input_event' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3a8b0): In function kbd_bh':
: undefined reference to input_event' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3a8c1): more undefined references to input_event' follow drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3ad73): In function `kbd_connect':
: undefined reference to input_open_device' drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3ad97): In function kbd_disconnect':
: undefined reference to input_close_device' drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x2391): In function kbd_init':
: undefined reference to `input_register_handler'

Chris Cheney

Normal. You have CONFIG_VT set to y and CONFIG_INPUT set to module. The VT console system now depends on the input layer. That is why the error. I can create a patch to deal with this. Unfortunely the console system is to broken to handle the input layer being modular. I do have a new core console system that can handle this.