Re: [RFC 1/5] drivers: Add boot constraints core

From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	rnayak@codeaurora.org, Shiraz Hashim <shashim@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/5] drivers: Add boot constraints core
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:19:27 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170629144927.GP29665@vireshk-i7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170629125040.GW4902@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>

On 29-06-17, 13:50, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:21:57AM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > On 28-06-17, 08:55, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > On 06/28/2017 03:26 AM, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > 
> > > > +config BOOT_CONSTRAINTS
> > > > +	bool "Boot constraints for devices"
> > > > +	default y
> > > 
> > > Why default y?
> > > 
> > > As Linus just wrote yesterday:
> > > 
> > > No. We've tried. The only sensible default (and that I try to enforce)
> > > is "new featrures default to 'n'"
> > 
> > Yeah, this should have been n really.
> 
> Given that the default default is to default to n, you don't need to
> supply a default that just says what the default default actually is.
> Please also avoid silly defaults.

That was nice :)

Yeah, will get rid of the default statement here.

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viresh