On Sat, 27 Oct 2018, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I wonder if there is some truly old historical legacy there, ie the old > PC keyboard support would have been configurable out only for expert > users to avoid errors, and maybe the HID Kconfig file started getting > ideas from that... This really goes waaay back to times when we extracted all the quirks from the generic driver (which became unmaintainable exactly because quirks being sprinkled left and right) into specialized drivers, but didn't want to cause too many user surprises that all of a sudden their configuration regressed when it comes to hardware support. We've had exactly this discussion multiple times before, see for example https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/20/227 So I guess there is no need for replaying it, I think we're in complete agreement. That being said, benff Kconfig setting definitely escaped attention. That should never ever have been set to default y, I take blame for not noticing that while applying the patch. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
