[RFC 1/5] drivers: Add boot constraints core

Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-06-29T12:50:41Z

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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