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Date:   Mon, 31 Jan 2022 19:30:48 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: kbuild: Don't default net vendor configs to y
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 6:59 PM Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@networkplumber.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:24:50 -0800
> Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
> >
> > NET_VENDOR_XYZ were defaulted to 'y' for no technical reason.
> >
> > Since all drivers belonging to a vendor are supposed to default to 'n',
> > defaulting all vendors to 'n' shouldn't be an issue, and aligns well
> > with the 'no new drivers' by default mentality.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
>
> This was done back when vendors were introduced in the network drivers tree.
> The default of Y allowed older configurations to just work.

And changing the defaults means all defconfigs must be updated first,
else the user's configs will end up without drivers needed.

> So there was a reason, not sure if it matters anymore.
> But it seems like useless repainting to change it now.

It might make sense to tune some of the defaults (i.e. change to
"default y if ARCH_*") for drivers with clear platform dependencies.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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