From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: drop bogus default values
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:11:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1426162307.5304.41.camel@x220> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5500584D02000078000688F5@mail.emea.novell.com>
[Removed Yann.]
On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 13:59 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Default "no" is pretty pointless for options without (visible) prompts:
Related: is there ever a situation where using "default n" or "def_bool
n" makes sense (whether or not the entry has a prompt)? I think I once
thought of one but I can't remember it at all, so I guess my memory is
fooling me.
> They only clutter .config-s with "# CONFIG_... is not set" and thus
As far as I can see the main effect of using "default n" is that this
line will be printed.
> prevent users of "make oldconfig", when the option obtains a prompt or
> its prompt becomes visible, noticing that these may now be enabled.
This side effect doesn't look like a feature. I scanned the source a bit
but - as usual - didn't stumble on a comment that might explain this
behavior. Michal probably feels better at home in the code and might be
able to offer a rationale.
Paul Bolle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-12 12:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-11 13:59 [PATCH] Kconfig: drop bogus default values Jan Beulich
2015-03-12 12:11 ` Paul Bolle [this message]
2015-03-12 12:36 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-12 12:41 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-12 18:51 ` Sam Ravnborg
2015-03-23 21:08 ` Martin Walch
2015-03-23 21:24 ` Paul Bolle
2015-03-23 22:58 ` Martin Walch
2015-03-24 7:39 ` Jan Beulich
2015-03-24 7:38 ` Jan Beulich
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