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Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:39:21 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] usb: move config USB_USS720 to usb's misc Kconfig
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 09:17:24AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> The USS720 parport driver source code is in drivers/usb/misc/, the
> corresponding config is defined in drivers/usb/Kconfig. Some digging in the
> kernel's history revealed no good reason why it needs to be defined in
> USB's top-level Kconfig file, and why the config for the USS720 parport
> driver should be the first in the list of USB port drivers, while all other
> configs for drivers in drivers/usb/misc are in the USB Miscellaneous driver
> configuration file.

It is that way because this was one of the first USB drivers we had, and
we only had one Kconfig file at the time and no misc/ subdir in the usb
directory.

So it's just inertia, that's all.

Your change looks great to me, want to resend it without the RFC so that
I can apply it?

thanks,

greg k-h