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

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Tue May 21 2019 - 07:52:17 EST


Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> '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>
...
> Index: b/drivers/misc/ocxl/Kconfig
> ===================================================================
> --- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/Kconfig
> @@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
>
> config OCXL_BASE
> bool
> - default n
> select PPC_COPRO_BASE
>
> config OCXL

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (ocxl)

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