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Commit b7d4ec39 authored by Darren Hart (VMware)'s avatar Darren Hart (VMware) Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Documentation/kbuild: Add guidance for the use of default

Document the preference [1] for new CONFIG options to "default n" (or
not use default at all) in order to minimizes changes to the config,
especially to avoid "make oldconfig" growing unnecessarily from release
to release.

Document the exceptions where it is acceptable to use "default y/m" for
new CONFIG options.

1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/18/257



Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent d063623b
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