Re: [PATCH net-next v1] net: stmmac: Default DWMAC_MOTORCOMM to m on MACH_LOONGSON64

From: Andrew Lunn

Date: Fri Sep 18 2026 - 08:33:56 EST


> drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/Kconfig:54: default m
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/Kconfig:106: default m
> drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/Kconfig:134: default m
> drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig:77: default m
> drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig:81: default m
> drivers/net/ethernet/sun/Kconfig:89: default m
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/Kconfig:37: default m
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/Kconfig:47: default m
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/Kconfig:67: default m
> drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/Kconfig:86: default m

Look deeper at these. Apart from the sun cases, which are very old,
default m is only used for optional parts of a module, not the module
as a whole.

Andrew