Commit 7af05e73 authored by Jean Delvare's avatar Jean Delvare Committed by Jiri Kosina

HID: Stop hiding options with !EXPERT

Many HID driver options are hidden unless EXPERT is set. While I
understand the idea of simplifying the kernel configuration for most
users, in practice I believe it adds more confusion than it helps.

One thing that worries me is that, in non-EXPERT mode, these drivers
will be either built-in or modular based on apparent magic. For
example, switching INPUT and HID from m to y will cause all these
drivers to be built into the kernel when they were previously built
as modules. Short of enabling EXPERT mode altogether, the user has no
control over that.

Generally I do not think tristate options should depend on !EXPERT.
Of these, 11 of 15 are currently in the hid subsystem.

The HID_LOGITECH option is even worse than the others. Sub-options
depend on it, and this causes menuconfig and friends to display the
option even though the user can't change its value. The help page for
HID_LOGITECH will not explain why the value can't be changed. It only
says, for example:

  Depends on: INPUT [=y] && HID [=y]

and that leaves the user puzzled about why the option is forced to y.
You might argue that this is a Kconfig bug, but that doesn't make it
less annoying for the user.

Even worse is that some of the sub-options of HID_LOGITECH select
INPUT_FF_MEMLESS, which in turn gets out of control for the user. So,
if you set INPUT=y and HID=y (something most general purpose
distributions would do these days, as both modules would get loaded on
a vast majority of systems otherwise), and you want support for
force-feedback game controllers, you can't have that as a module, it
has to be built-in, regardless of how rare these devices are.

Of course, all this madness goes away once EXPERT is enabled, but then
the rest of the kernel configuration becomes more complex, which
totally voids the original point.

For this reason, I would like all HID device tristate options to be
displayed regardless of EXPERT being set or not. We can let the
default settings still depend on EXPERT, that's not intrusive.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent c4bbb398
......@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ menu "Special HID drivers"
depends on HID
config HID_A4TECH
tristate "A4 tech mice" if EXPERT
tristate "A4 tech mice"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
......@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ config HID_ACRUX_FF
game controllers.
config HID_APPLE
tristate "Apple {i,Power,Mac}Books" if EXPERT
tristate "Apple {i,Power,Mac}Books"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
......@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ config HID_AUREAL
Support for Aureal Cy se W-01RN Remote Controller and other Aureal derived remotes.
config HID_BELKIN
tristate "Belkin Flip KVM and Wireless keyboard" if EXPERT
tristate "Belkin Flip KVM and Wireless keyboard"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
......@@ -158,14 +158,14 @@ config HID_BETOP_FF
- BETOP 2185 PC & BFM MODE
config HID_CHERRY
tristate "Cherry Cymotion keyboard" if EXPERT
tristate "Cherry Cymotion keyboard"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
Support for Cherry Cymotion keyboard.
config HID_CHICONY
tristate "Chicony Tactical pad" if EXPERT
tristate "Chicony Tactical pad"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
......@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ config HID_CP2112
customizable USB descriptor fields are exposed as sysfs attributes.
config HID_CYPRESS
tristate "Cypress mouse and barcode readers" if EXPERT
tristate "Cypress mouse and barcode readers"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
......@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ config HID_ELO
different devices than those handled by CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_USB_ELO.
config HID_EZKEY
tristate "Ezkey BTC 8193 keyboard" if EXPERT
tristate "Ezkey BTC 8193 keyboard"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
......@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ config HID_TWINHAN
Support for Twinhan IR remote control.
config HID_KENSINGTON
tristate "Kensington Slimblade Trackball" if EXPERT
tristate "Kensington Slimblade Trackball"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
......@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ config HID_LENOVO
- ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard with TrackPoint (supports Fn keys)
config HID_LOGITECH
tristate "Logitech devices" if EXPERT
tristate "Logitech devices"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
......@@ -461,14 +461,14 @@ config HID_MAGICMOUSE
Apple Wireless "Magic" Mouse and the Apple Wireless "Magic" Trackpad.
config HID_MICROSOFT
tristate "Microsoft non-fully HID-compliant devices" if EXPERT
tristate "Microsoft non-fully HID-compliant devices"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
Support for Microsoft devices that are not fully compliant with HID standard.
config HID_MONTEREY
tristate "Monterey Genius KB29E keyboard" if EXPERT
tristate "Monterey Genius KB29E keyboard"
depends on HID
default !EXPERT
---help---
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