Re: [PATCH v1] scsi: Don't select SCSI_PROC_FS by default

[Finn Thain]

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, Marc Gonzalez wrote:

> On 21/06/2019 01:43, Finn Thain wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Jun 2019, Marc Gonzalez wrote:
> > 
> >> How likely is it that distro kernels would *not* enable CHR_DEV_SG? 
> >> (Distros tend to enable everything, and then some.)
> > 
> > How likely is it that embedded developers would *not* disable 
> > CHR_DEV_SG? They tend to disable everything, and then enable only what 
> > they need.
> 
> I don't see where you're going with this line of reasoning?
> 

Exactly. This sort of reasoning goes nowhere.

> Below is my current (as of next-20190612) defconfig.
> 
> Notice the options marked as "not set". These are options that are 
> enabled by default (and which I've disabled).
> 
> Everyone thinks "their" option is critical (and it is, *to them*) but, 
> in fact, few really are -- universally. 

The relevant policy is documented in 
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.

If there are useful generalizations about the choice of defaults for 
Kconfig symbols (or changing those defaults) that are not documented then 
they probably should be.

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