linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/5] drivers: Add boot constraints core

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Message-ID: <20170629125040.GW4902@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:50:41 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        rnayak@...eaurora.org, Shiraz Hashim <shashim@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/5] drivers: Add boot constraints core

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:21:57AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 28-06-17, 08:55, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 06/28/2017 03:26 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> 
> > > +config BOOT_CONSTRAINTS
> > > +	bool "Boot constraints for devices"
> > > +	default y
> > 
> > Why default y?
> > 
> > As Linus just wrote yesterday:
> > 
> > No. We've tried. The only sensible default (and that I try to enforce)
> > is "new featrures default to 'n'"
> 
> Yeah, this should have been n really.

Given that the default default is to default to n, you don't need to
supply a default that just says what the default default actually is.
Please also avoid silly defaults.

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