Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:59:05 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next] net: kbuild: Don't default net vendor configs to y |
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:24:50 -0800 Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com> > > NET_VENDOR_XYZ were defaulted to 'y' for no technical reason. > > Since all drivers belonging to a vendor are supposed to default to 'n', > defaulting all vendors to 'n' shouldn't be an issue, and aligns well > with the 'no new drivers' by default mentality. > > Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
This was done back when vendors were introduced in the network drivers tree. The default of Y allowed older configurations to just work.
So there was a reason, not sure if it matters anymore. But it seems like useless repainting to change it now.
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