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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810151036400.3288@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:43:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.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, 15 Oct 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> For me the more obvious way was what I did, but I agree that your 
> solution looks better.

I guess the "more obvious" part simply depends on what you're used to. The 
"default y" + "depends on XYZ" thing is a rather common model, so I find 
it to not just be shorter, but also "more obvious", exactly because I've 
seen it before.

Of course, the behaviour of 'default y' is much simpler (and _much_ more 
common!) for a bool than for a tristate, and the rules for tristate logic 
in general are obviously often a bit non-intuitive considering that we're 
almost always used to the binary kind, and then the fact that Kconfgi uses 
ternary logic has caused no end of hiccups.

		Linus
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