On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 06:10:41PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
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> >        bool "USB device class-devices (DEPRECATED)"
> >        depends on USB
> >-       default n
> >+       default y
> 
> It puzzles me why a deprecated option should be default 'Y'...

Because if it defaults to 'n', a 'make oldconfig' will break unmodified
userspace on reboot, which is something we don't want to do in a 'stable'
series, without announcing it first for a serious length of time.

	Bert

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