Re: [PATCH] media: default for RC_CORE should be n

From: Sean Young
Date: Fri Sep 08 2017 - 14:52:55 EST


On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 09:39:29AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The Linus policy on Kconfig is that the default should be no
> for all new devices. I.e the user rebuild a new kernel from an
> old config should not by default get a larger kernel.

That might make sense for new config, but RC_CORE has been present for
7 years; I don't see how changing defaults for existing config makes
sense.


Sean

>
> Fixes: b4c184e506a4 ("[media] media: reorganize the main Kconfig items")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/media/rc/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/Kconfig b/drivers/media/rc/Kconfig
> index d9ce8ff55d0c..5aa384afcfef 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/rc/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/media/rc/Kconfig
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
> menuconfig RC_CORE
> tristate "Remote Controller support"
> depends on INPUT
> - default y
> + default n
> ---help---
> Enable support for Remote Controllers on Linux. This is
> needed in order to support several video capture adapters,
> --
> 2.11.0