On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:03:46 -0700 (PDT)
Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Here are a bunch of USB patches and fixes against your 2.6.22 git tree.
>
> This also seems to contain some *totally*pointless* config variable
> changes, that actually break simple things like "make oldconfig".
>
> This commit is insane: acb11c8b8020f1f1b2545152020675ef32d09a58 "USB: fix
> gregkh-usb-usb-use-menuconfig-objects"
>
> It fixes nothing at all, quite the reverse. It makes the default be
> somethign that breaks everything, and more irritatingly, even if you
> answer 'y' (against the default), it breaks "make oldconfig", which will
> have ignored all the old options and now will ask you for all of them
> again.
>
> Yeah, that second part may be a "make oldconfig" bug, but regardless,
> these kinds of Kconfig changes are BAD, BAD, BAD!
>
> I hate how people do just stupid things to "clean up" config files
> (renaming config options etc), apparently never even bothering to think
> about whether a question is sane or not, or whether normal users want to
> see it or not.
>
> I know I'm not the only one who does "make oldconfig". Answering the same
> questions over and over again is not something *anybody* wants to do.
>
> So please stop this madness. I've reverted the change that left the
> menuconfig entry without a default, which at least fixes "make oldconfig",
> but I just found this really irritating. I can pretty much guarantee that
> nobody actually *tested* this change, did they?
>
I went through the same pain a few weeks ago and I _thought_ all except one
of these "fixes" got tossed. However it looks like the USB one escaped.
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