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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, 19 Jun 2026 at 15:54, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2026, at 15:11, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 19/06/2026 12:12, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >>> +# 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
> >
> > I would not call it new policy. Just an idea which got accepted. :)
>
> I think when we originally added the CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_xxx symbols,
> the idea would be that we would one day change them to
> default-disabled, but that never happened, and generally causes
> more problems than it solves.

Yeah. While "make oldconfig" would handle that fine, all defconfigs would
need an update.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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