linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] HID: fix default building of all quirky devices

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Message-ID: <20081015173245.GA19255@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:32:45 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, zippel@...ux-m68k.org,
	sam@...nborg.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] HID: fix default building of all quirky devices

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:17:27AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > And notice how you mis-use select. That's not how to disable a question. A 
> > question gets disabled by just doing an "if xyz" on the question itself, 
> > like Adrian did.
> 
> Side note: Adrian too has a very odd and non-obvious way of doing this.
> 
> His patch did config entries like
> 
> 	config HID_BRIGHT
> 		tristate "Bright" if EMBEDDED
> 		default USB_HID
> 		depends on USB_HID
> 
> which is a really odd way to express this. The much more natural one is
> 
> 	config HID_BRIGHT
> 		tristate "Bright" if EMBEDDED
> 		depends on USB_HID
> 		default y
> 
> since there's no point in saying "default USB_HID" + "depends on USB_HID", 
> and that's just confusing. Since it depends on USB_HID, the "default y" 
> will automatically degrade to whatever USB_HID was set to.

For me the more obvious way was what I did, but I agree that your 
solution looks better.

> 			Linus

cu
Adrian

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