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Date:   Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:01:25 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, mkubecek@...e.cz, andrew@...n.ch,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/6] net: devlink: turn devlink into a
 built-in

Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 04:34:02AM CET, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com wrote:

[...]


>diff --git a/net/Kconfig b/net/Kconfig
>index 62da6148e9f8..1efe1f9ee492 100644
>--- a/net/Kconfig
>+++ b/net/Kconfig
>@@ -429,21 +429,12 @@ config NET_SOCK_MSG
> 	  with the help of BPF programs.
> 
> config NET_DEVLINK
>-	tristate "Network physical/parent device Netlink interface"
>+	bool "Network physical/parent device Netlink interface"

Wouldn't "default y" be better?


> 	help
> 	  Network physical/parent device Netlink interface provides
> 	  infrastructure to support access to physical chip-wide config and
> 	  monitoring.
> 

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