linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

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Message-ID: <E1TIkOz-0005p0-Ra@bigred.inka.de>
Date:	Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:07:33 +0200
From:	Olaf Titz <olaf@...red.inka.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

In article <E1TIXga-0008T1-00@....xplot.org> you write:
> Interestingly, of the 26 configs that use EXPERT in the default
> clause, 15 of them are in drivers/hid (see below).

Without looking at the code I assume this is due to copy/paste.
Someone perhaps once wrote

> ./drivers/hid/Kconfig:  default !EXPERT

when he really intended

> ./drivers/media/common/tuners/Kconfig:  default y if !EXPERT

Olaf
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