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

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Jan 31 17:59:05 UTC 2022


On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:24:50 -0800
Saeed Mahameed <saeed at kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm at 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 at 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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