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Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:00:18 +0200 From: "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@...il.com> To: "Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@...e.cz> Cc: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org, "Marcel Holtmann" <marcel@...tmann.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, anssi.hannula@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] HID: add compat support On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> Add compat option to hid code to allow loading of all modules on >> systems which don't allow autoloading because of old userspace. > [ ... ] >> +config HID_COMPAT >> + bool "Load all HID drivers on hid core load" >> + ---help--- >> + Compatible option for older userspace. If you have system without udev >> + support of module loading through aliases and also old >> + module-init-tools which can't handle hid bus, choose Y here. Otherwise >> + say N. If you say N and your userspace is old enough, the only >> + functionality you loose is modules autoloading. >> + >> + If unsure, say N. >> + > > Hi Jiri, Hi, > shouldn't we leave this default to 'Y' for quite some time? This is unnecessary on most configurations, but requisite on old userspace. I think, we choose options like this to be yes. Please alter the patch. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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