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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next] net: kbuild: Don't default net vendor configs to y
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:59:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220131095905.08722670@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220131172450.4905-1-saeed@kernel.org>

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.

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

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-31 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-31 17:24 [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next] net: kbuild: Don't default net vendor configs to y Saeed Mahameed
2022-01-31 17:59 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2022-01-31 18:30   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-01-31 18:35     ` Saeed Mahameed
2022-01-31 18:40       ` Florian Fainelli
2022-01-31 18:55         ` Hisashi T Fujinaka
2022-02-01  8:58           ` Leon Romanovsky
2022-02-01 15:46             ` Richard Cochran
2022-01-31 19:17         ` Richard Cochran
2022-01-31 20:10         ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-01-31 23:06           ` Florian Fainelli
2022-01-31 23:13             ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-01-31 23:19               ` Florian Fainelli
2022-02-02  4:46                 ` Saeed Mahameed
2022-02-02  4:58                   ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-02-02  5:16                     ` Saeed Mahameed
2022-02-02  6:30                       ` Christophe Leroy
2022-02-02  6:44                         ` Saeed Mahameed
2022-02-02  6:49                         ` Saeed Mahameed
2022-02-02 15:17                           ` Richard Cochran
2022-02-02 15:31                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-01-31 18:31   ` Saeed Mahameed
2022-01-31 18:04 ` Shannon Nelson
2022-01-31 19:13   ` Richard Cochran

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