linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] HID: Do not switch default values in EXPERT mode

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1205141021530.15448@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 14 May 2012 10:23:45 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...glemail.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] HID: Do not switch default values in EXPERT mode

On Sun, 13 May 2012, David Herrmann wrote:

> Expert mode was designed to toggle visibility of options and not to
> change their behavior. If a user wants to tweak a single value and
> enables EXPERT mode to do this, he will have several unexpected
> side effects when other subsystems toggle their default values based
> on EXPERT mode. This makes EXPERT pretty useless.
> 
> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...glemail.com>

Please see

	d04b431e3d769fbbf26c4f4072002375c8cc4ed9
	b36299bcc0feae4c1bcff6a1561b8beb635e9c80
	
for some reasoning why this is done the way it's done.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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