Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: kbuild: Don't default net vendor configs to y

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:59:05 -0800

On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 09:24:50 -0800
Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]>
> 
> NET_VENDOR_XYZ were defaulted to 'y' for no technical reason.
> 
> Since all drivers belonging to a vendor are supposed to default to 'n',
> defaulting all vendors to 'n' shouldn't be an issue, and aligns well
> with the 'no new drivers' by default mentality.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <[email-masked]>

This was done back when vendors were introduced in the network drivers tree.
The default of Y allowed older configurations to just work.

So there was a reason, not sure if it matters anymore.
But it seems like useless repainting to change it now.