[Linux-stm32] [PATCH net-next] net: kbuild: Don't default net vendor configs to y

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:06:01 -0800 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >> Right, but once you start hiding NET_VENDOR_DRIVER_XYZ under a
> >> NET_VENDOR_XYZ Kconfig symbol dependency, if NET_VENDOR_XYZ is not set
> >> to Y, then you have no way to select NET_VENDOR_DRIVER_XYZ and so your
> >> old defconfig breaks.  
> > 
> > To be clear do we actually care about *old* configs or *def* configs?  
> 
> I think we care about oldconfig but maybe less so about defconfigs which 
> are in tree and can be updated.

The oldconfigs would have to not be updated on any intervening kernel
in the last 10+ years to break, right? Or is there another way that an
oldconfig would not have the vendor config set to y at this point?