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From: "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] HID: add compat support
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:00:18 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>
>> Add compat option to hid code to allow loading of all modules on
>> systems which don't allow autoloading because of old userspace.
> [ ... ]
>> +config HID_COMPAT
>> +     bool "Load all HID drivers on hid core load"
>> +     ---help---
>> +     Compatible option for older userspace. If you have system without udev
>> +     support of module loading through aliases and also old
>> +     module-init-tools which can't handle hid bus, choose Y here. Otherwise
>> +     say N. If you say N and your userspace is old enough, the only
>> +     functionality you loose is modules autoloading.
>> +
>> +     If unsure, say N.
>> +
>
> Hi Jiri,

Hi,

> shouldn't we leave this default to 'Y' for quite some time?

This is unnecessary on most configurations, but requisite on old
userspace. I think, we choose options like this to be yes. Please
alter the patch. Thanks.