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

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Message-ID: <20170629035157.GG29665@vireshk-i7>
Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:21:57 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Shiraz Hashim <shashim@...eaurora.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, rnayak@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/5] drivers: Add boot constraints core

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.

-- 
viresh