From: bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB: set default y for CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 18:14:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070527161458.GA1749@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490705270910q2fde0e19i1e60393cef7b86d4@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 06:10:41PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > 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 if it defaults to 'n', a 'make oldconfig' will break unmodified
userspace on reboot, which is something we don't want to do in a 'stable'
series, without announcing it first for a serious length of time.
Bert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-27 16:15 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 [this message]
2007-05-27 16:19 ` Kay Sievers
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