Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

2012-10-01 Thread David Rientjes
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012, Tim Shepard wrote: > And may I suggest that CONFIG_EXPERT should be factored into two > CONFIGs, one of which makes configuration things visible, and another > which changes the default values to something more appropriate for > embedded systems (perhaps call it CONFIG_EMBEDDE

Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

2012-10-01 Thread David Rientjes
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Tim Shepard wrote: > Interestingly, of the 26 configs that use EXPERT in the default > clause, 15 of them are in drivers/hid (see below). > > -Tim Shepard >s...@alum.mit.edu > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

2012-10-01 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 08:24:46PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 09/30/2012 07:21 PM, Tim Shepard wrote: > > > A month or two ago when I attempted to upgrade from 3.4 to 3.5 on my > > MacBook Pro laptop, in preparation to try an interesting patch to TCP > > developed against 3.5 by a colleague,

Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

2012-10-01 Thread Olaf Titz
In article you write: > Interestingly, of the 26 configs that use EXPERT in the default > clause, 15 of them are in drivers/hid (see below). Without looking at the code I assume this is due to copy/paste. Someone perhaps once wrote > ./drivers/hid/Kconfig: default !EXPERT when he really intend

Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

2012-10-01 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Tim Shepard writes: > This weekend I finally figured out why the keyboard in my MacBook Pro > stopped working between 3.4 and 3.5. > > When I turned on CONFIG_EXPERT it turned off CONFIG_HID_APPLE. There > was no warning that selecting "Configure standard kernel features" will > invisibly t

Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

2012-09-30 Thread Tim Shepard
Interestingly, of the 26 configs that use EXPERT in the default clause, 15 of them are in drivers/hid (see below). -Tim Shepard s...@alum.mit.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - $ find . -type f -name Kconf

Re: CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

2012-09-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On 09/30/2012 07:21 PM, Tim Shepard wrote: > A month or two ago when I attempted to upgrade from 3.4 to 3.5 on my > MacBook Pro laptop, in preparation to try an interesting patch to TCP > developed against 3.5 by a colleague, my keyboard stopped working. I > tried bisecting, but that lead to nowh

CONFIG_EXPERT is a booby trap

2012-09-30 Thread Tim Shepard
A month or two ago when I attempted to upgrade from 3.4 to 3.5 on my MacBook Pro laptop, in preparation to try an interesting patch to TCP developed against 3.5 by a colleague, my keyboard stopped working. I tried bisecting, but that lead to nowhere useful and much confusion. It turns out that