On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 11:13 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, so this is a much smaller issue than the i2c one that cause boot
> problems, but it's annoying.
>
> We do *not* enable new random drivers by default. And we most
> *definitely* don't do it when they are odd-ball ones that most people
> have never heard of.
>
> Yet the new "BigBen Interactive" driver that was added this merge
> window did exactly that.
In fairness, it seems many of the HID drivers do exactly that
and this could have been a "copy from example" addition.
$ git grep -P -i -B2 'default\s+\!EXPERT' -- drivers/hid/Kconfig
drivers/hid/Kconfig- tristate "A4 tech mice"
drivers/hid/Kconfig- depends on HID
drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT
--
drivers/hid/Kconfig- tristate "Apple {i,Power,Mac}Books"
drivers/hid/Kconfig- depends on HID
drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT
--
drivers/hid/Kconfig- tristate "Belkin Flip KVM and Wireless keyboard"
drivers/hid/Kconfig- depends on HID
drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT
--
drivers/hid/Kconfig- tristate "Cherry Cymotion keyboard"
drivers/hid/Kconfig- depends on HID
drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT
--
drivers/hid/Kconfig- tristate "Chicony devices"
drivers/hid/Kconfig- depends on HID
drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT
--
drivers/hid/Kconfig- tristate "Cypress mouse and barcode readers"
drivers/hid/Kconfig- depends on HID
drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT
--
drivers/hid/Kconfig- tristate "Ezkey BTC 8193 keyboard"
drivers/hid/Kconfig- depends on HID
drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT
--
drivers/hid/Kconfig- tristate "ITE devices"
drivers/hid/Kconfig- depends on HID
drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT
--
drivers/hid/Kconfig- tristate "Kensington Slimblade Trackball"
drivers/hid/Kconfig- depends on HID
drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT
--
drivers/hid/Kconfig- tristate "Logitech devices"
drivers/hid/Kconfig- depends on HID
drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT
