From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:59:05 -0800 Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next] net: kbuild: Don't default net vendor configs to y In-Reply-To: <20220131172450.4905-1-saeed@kernel.org> References: <20220131172450.4905-1-saeed@kernel.org> Message-ID: <20220131095905.08722670@hermes.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: intel-wired-lan@osuosl.org List-ID: On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:24:50 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote: > From: Saeed Mahameed > > 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 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.