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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:18:47 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>, "David S . Miller"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] connector/Kconfig: Enable CONFIG_CONNECTOR by default
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On Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:42:17 +0100 Qais Yousef wrote:
> To make new tools that depend on it like schedqos [1] more reliable, it
> is important to ensure users can find it by default on all system.

If scheduler maintainers think this is appropriate they should take
this patch via their tree (please). connector falls under networking 
for historical reasons (it's Netlink based) but we lack the context
necessary to apply a "default y" patch of this nature.

default y should be used if the symbol is necessary for most Linux
users across use cases and architectures. It's not obvious to me
that that is the case here. The commit message links to a tool 
which is less than a week old?