linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: drop bogus default values

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Message-Id: <5501966D0200007800068FFB@mail.emea.novell.com>
Date:	Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:36:45 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...e.com>
To:	"Paul Bolle" <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "Michal Marek" <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	<linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: drop bogus default values

>>> On 12.03.15 at 13:11, <pebolle@...cali.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 13:59 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Default "no" is pretty pointless for options without (visible) prompts:
> 
> Related: is there ever a situation where using "default n" or "def_bool
> n" makes sense (whether or not the entry has a prompt)? I think I once
> thought of one but I can't remember it at all, so I guess my memory is
> fooling me.

I can't see any, but since as long as there is a visible prompt this
doesn't have any other bad effect than bloating the Kconfig file
and making its parsing a tiny bit slower, I don't care that much
about those (originally I had started a patch removing those too,
but gave up after a while).

Jan


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