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SubjectRe: [PATCH] usb: get rid of 'choice' for legacy gadget drivers
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Hi,

Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> writes:
> drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/Kconfig creates a 'choice' inside another
> 'choice'.
>
> The outer choice: line 17 "USB Gadget precomposed configurations"
> The inner choice: line 484 "EHCI Debug Device mode"
>
> I wondered why the whole legacy gadget drivers reside in such a big
> choice block.
>
> This dates back to 2003, "[PATCH] USB: fix for multiple definition of
> `usb_gadget_get_string'". [1]
>
> At that time, the global function, usb_gadget_get_string(), was linked
> into multiple drivers. That was why only one driver was able to become
> built-in at the same time.
>
> Later, commit a84d9e5361bc ("usb: gadget: start with libcomposite")
> moved usb_gadget_get_string() to a separate module, libcomposite.ko
> instead of including usbstring.c from multiple modules.
>
> More and more refactoring was done, and after commit 1bcce939478f
> ("usb: gadget: multi: convert to new interface of f_mass_storage"),
> you can link multiple gadget drivers into vmlinux without causing
> multiple definition error.
>
> This is the only user of the nested choice structure ever. Removing
> this mess will make some Kconfig cleanups possible.
>
> [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=fee4cf49a81381e072c063571d1aadbb29207408
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Greg, if you want to pick this for v5.7, please go ahead:

Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>

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