Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754826Ab2ENIXx (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2012 04:23:53 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:40045 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754447Ab2ENIXw (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2012 04:23:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 10:23:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: David Herrmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] HID: Do not switch default values in EXPERT mode In-Reply-To: <1336925230-2853-2-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> Message-ID: References: <1336925230-2853-1-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> <1336925230-2853-2-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 28 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 > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann Please see d04b431e3d769fbbf26c4f4072002375c8cc4ed9 b36299bcc0feae4c1bcff6a1561b8beb635e9c80 for some reasoning why this is done the way it's done. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/