Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:50:41 +0100
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, rnayak@codeaurora.org,
        Shiraz Hashim <shashim@codeaurora.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/5] drivers: Add boot constraints core
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:21:57AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 28-06-17, 08:55, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 06/28/2017 03:26 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> 
> > > +config BOOT_CONSTRAINTS
> > > +	bool "Boot constraints for devices"
> > > +	default y
> > 
> > Why default y?
> > 
> > As Linus just wrote yesterday:
> > 
> > No. We've tried. The only sensible default (and that I try to enforce)
> > is "new featrures default to 'n'"
> 
> Yeah, this should have been n really.

Given that the default default is to default to n, you don't need to
supply a default that just says what the default default actually is.
Please also avoid silly defaults.

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