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From: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@mediatek.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	<linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <wsd_upstream@mediatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: avoid default n
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 17:03:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1562144624.3550.1.camel@mtksdaap41> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <be8a97c15249ff8a613910db5792c5bcdc75333c.camel@perches.com>

On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 01:42 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-07-03 at 16:30 +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> > This change reports a warning when "default n" is used.
> > 
> > I have seen several "remove default n" patches, so I think
> > it might be helpful to add this test in checkpatch.
> > 
> > tested:
> > WARNING: 'default n' is the default value, no need to write it explicitly.
> > +       default n
> 
> I don't think this is reasonable as there are
> several uses like:
> 
> 		default y
> 		default n if <foo>
> 
> For instance:
> 
> arch/alpha/Kconfig-config ALPHA_WTINT
> arch/alpha/Kconfig-     bool "Use WTINT" if ALPHA_SRM || ALPHA_GENERIC
> arch/alpha/Kconfig-     default y if ALPHA_QEMU
> arch/alpha/Kconfig:     default n if ALPHA_EV5 || ALPHA_EV56 || (ALPHA_EV4 && !ALPHA_LCA)
> arch/alpha/Kconfig:     default n if !ALPHA_SRM && !ALPHA_GENERIC

Hi,


I've sent similar patch in 2016, my version won't complain about these.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/22/580

Joe.C


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-03  9:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-03  8:30 [PATCH] checkpatch: avoid default n Miles Chen
2019-07-03  8:42 ` Joe Perches
2019-07-03  8:58   ` Yingjoe Chen
2019-07-03  9:03   ` Yingjoe Chen [this message]
2019-07-03 15:37     ` Joe Perches
2019-07-04  5:48       ` Miles Chen
2019-07-03 11:22   ` Miles Chen

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