Re: [RFC PATCH] usb: move config USB_USS720 to usb's misc Kconfig

[Lukas Bulwahn]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 9:39 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 09:17:24AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> > The USS720 parport driver source code is in drivers/usb/misc/, the
> > corresponding config is defined in drivers/usb/Kconfig. Some digging in the
> > kernel's history revealed no good reason why it needs to be defined in
> > USB's top-level Kconfig file, and why the config for the USS720 parport
> > driver should be the first in the list of USB port drivers, while all other
> > configs for drivers in drivers/usb/misc are in the USB Miscellaneous driver
> > configuration file.
>
> It is that way because this was one of the first USB drivers we had, and
> we only had one Kconfig file at the time and no misc/ subdir in the usb
> directory.
>
> So it's just inertia, that's all.
>
> Your change looks great to me, want to resend it without the RFC so that
> I can apply it?

Thanks for the quick response and confirmation, Greg.

You will find the patch without RFC in your mailbox and on lore.kernel.org at:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230329075125.32352-1-lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx/

Best regards,

Lukas