linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] HID: Stop hiding options with !EXPERT

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Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:22:26 +0100
From:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] HID: Stop hiding options with !EXPERT

Le Monday 16 March 2015 à 16:03 +0100, Jiri Kosina a écrit :
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > Many HID driver options are hidden unless EXPERT is set. While I
> > understand the idea of simplifying the kernel configuration for most
> > users, in practice I believe it adds more confusion than it helps.
> 
> OK, I think we've reached a point where this might actually be OK -- users 
> which depended on those few drivers should now have explicit select in 
> their .config anyway.
> 
> So I am applying this to for-4.1/kconfig-drop-expert-dependency, let's see 
> whether we receive any complaints.

This is great news, thank you very much :-)

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

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