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

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Dec 03 2018 - 07:29:45 EST


On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:34 PM Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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