Re: [PATCH 1/7] HID: Do not switch default values in EXPERT mode

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon May 14 2012 - 04:23:48 EST


On Sun, 13 May 2012, David Herrmann wrote:

> Expert mode was designed to toggle visibility of options and not to
> change their behavior. If a user wants to tweak a single value and
> enables EXPERT mode to do this, he will have several unexpected
> side effects when other subsystems toggle their default values based
> on EXPERT mode. This makes EXPERT pretty useless.
>
> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Please see

d04b431e3d769fbbf26c4f4072002375c8cc4ed9
b36299bcc0feae4c1bcff6a1561b8beb635e9c80

for some reasoning why this is done the way it's done.

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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