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Ответ к коммиту, который добавляет драйвер для контроллера BigBen в ядро и включает его по умолчанию:
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.
Just don't do it.
Yes, yes, every developer always thinks that _their_ driver is so special and so magically important that it should be enabled by default. But no. When we have thousands of drivers, we don't randomly pick one new driver to be enabled by default just because some developer thinks it is special. It's not.
So the
default !EXPERT
was completely wrong in commit 256a90ed9e46 («HID: hid-bigbenff: driver for BigBen Interactive PS3OFMINIPAD gamepad»). Please don't do things like this.
Linus