linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] m68k: remove redundant 'default n' from Kconfig

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <CAMuHMdXBDom8+p9GgWavpc_mdEtMoVkSvL3fuDCkFrb=5Fooug@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 3 Dec 2018 13:29:29 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
Cc:     linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k: remove redundant 'default n' from Kconfig

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:34 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<b.zolnierkie@...sung.com> wrote:
> 'default n' is the default value for any bool or tristate Kconfig
> setting so there is no need to write it explicitly.
>
> Also since commit f467c5640c29 ("kconfig: only write '# CONFIG_FOO
> is not set' for visible symbols") the Kconfig behavior is the same
> regardless of 'default n' being present or not:
>
>     ...
>     One side effect of (and the main motivation for) this change is making
>     the following two definitions behave exactly the same:
>
>         config FOO
>                 bool
>
>         config FOO
>                 bool
>                 default n
>
>     With this change, neither of these will generate a
>     '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' line (assuming FOO isn't selected/implied).
>     That might make it clearer to people that a bare 'default n' is
>     redundant.
>     ...
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
I.e., applied and queued for v4.21.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds