Re: [PATCH] misc: remove redundant 'default n' from Kconfig-s

From: Michał Mirosław
Date: Mon May 20 2019 - 14:08:43 EST


On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 04:10:46PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 'default n' is the default value for any bool or tristate Kconfig
> setting so there is no need to write it explicitly.
>
> Also since commit f467c5640c29 ("kconfig: only write '# CONFIG_FOO
> is not set' for visible symbols") the Kconfig behavior is the same
> regardless of 'default n' being present or not:
>
> ...
> One side effect of (and the main motivation for) this change is making
> the following two definitions behave exactly the same:
>
> config FOO
> bool
>
> config FOO
> bool
> default n
>
> With this change, neither of these will generate a
> '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' line (assuming FOO isn't selected/implied).
> That might make it clearer to people that a bare 'default n' is
> redundant.
> ...
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Acked-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>