From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB: set default y for CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 18:19:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1180282774.3131.54.camel@lov.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490705270910q2fde0e19i1e60393cef7b86d4@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 18:10 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 27/05/07, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> > Subject: USB: set default y for CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> > ---
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig
> > index f493fb1..346fc03 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/core/Kconfig
> > @@ -40,21 +40,25 @@ config USB_DEVICEFS
> > config USB_DEVICE_CLASS
> > bool "USB device class-devices (DEPRECATED)"
> > depends on USB
> > - default n
> > + default y
>
> It puzzles me why a deprecated option should be default 'Y'...
Because usb_device class devices are kind of broken regarding the event
timing, and should not be used anymore. They are replaced by
device-nodes created by the real usb-device, but some systems still
depend on the class devices:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/27/56
We better default to y for a while until the users have switched over.
Kay
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-27 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-27 15:04 Kay Sievers
2007-05-27 16:10 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-05-27 16:14 ` bert hubert
2007-05-27 16:19 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
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