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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 11:23:45 +0300 From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, Srinivasan Raju <srini.raju@...elifi.com>, mostafa.afgani@...elifi.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] wireless: Initial driver submission for pureLiFi devices Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org> writes: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 12:11:24PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: >> On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 12:55 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: >> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 11:01:27AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: >> > > Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org> writes: >> > > >> > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/Kconfig >> > > > b/drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/Kconfig >> > > > > new file mode 100644 >> > > > > index 000000000000..ff05eaf0a8d4 >> > > > > --- /dev/null >> > > > > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/purelifi/Kconfig >> > > > > @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ >> > > > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 >> > > > > +config WLAN_VENDOR_PURELIFI >> > > > > + bool "pureLiFi devices" >> > > > > + default y >> > > > >> > > > "N" is preferred default. >> > > >> > > In most cases that's true, but for WLAN_VENDOR_ configs 'default y' >> > > should be used. It's the same as with NET_VENDOR_. >> > >> > I would like to challenge it, why is that? >> > Why do I need to set "N", every time new vendor upstreams its code? >> >> You don't. The WLAN_VENDOR_* settings are not supposed to affect the >> build, just the Kconfig visibility. > > Which is important to me, I'm keeping .config as minimal as possible > to simplify comparison between various builds. IIRC the 'default y' is to avoid breaking when updating from an old, pre-vendor, kernel config (for example with 'make oldconfig'), otherwise all wireless drivers would have been disabled without a warning. But as wireless vendors were introduced back in 2015 in v4.5-rc1 I don't think we need to worry about that anymore. But I would like to keep this behaviour consistent across all vendors, so they all should be changed at the same time in one patch. -- https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
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