Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] arm64: defconfig: Drop unused Ethernet vendors

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Krzysztof,

On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 at 20:52, Krzysztof Kozlowski
<krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Make going through `make menuconfig` easier by disabling the unused
> Ethernet vendor menu options, where no actual driver for given vendor is
> selected.
>
> Impact checked with comparing old and new autoconf.h:
>   diff ... | grep '^-' | grep -v CONFIG_NET_VENDOR
>
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 32379ad4060b6fc0
("arm64: defconfig: Drop unused Ethernet vendors").

> --- a/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/configs/defconfig
> @@ -349,15 +349,33 @@ CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET=y
>  CONFIG_MHI_NET=m
>  CONFIG_NET_DSA_BCM_SF2=m
>  CONFIG_NET_DSA_MSCC_FELIX=m
> +# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set
> +# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_ACTIONS is not set
> +# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_ADAPTEC is not set
> +# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_AGERE is not set
> +# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_ALACRITECH is not set
> +# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_ALLWINNER is not set

[...]

I am not sure this new policy is a good idea: none of this affects
actual kernel size, but it does increase defconfig size, and churn.
E.g. for the m68k defconfig, I dropped all these disablements
several years ago.

I don't use menufconfig, so just my 2€c...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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