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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Wed, 22 May 2019 23:20:00 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] misc: remove redundant 'default n' from Kconfig-s
To:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
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On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 4:10 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> wrote:
>
> 'default n' is the default value for any bool or tristate Kconfig
> setting so there is no need to write it explicitly.
>
> Also since commit f467c5640c29 ("kconfig: only write '# CONFIG_FOO
> is not set' for visible symbols") the Kconfig behavior is the same
> regardless of 'default n' being present or not:
>
>     ...
>     One side effect of (and the main motivation for) this change is making
>     the following two definitions behave exactly the same:
>
>         config FOO
>                 bool
>
>         config FOO
>                 bool
>                 default n
>
>     With this change, neither of these will generate a
>     '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' line (assuming FOO isn't selected/implied).
>     That might make it clearer to people that a bare 'default n' is
>     redundant.
>     ...
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>