From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from out-174.mta0.migadu.com (out-174.mta0.migadu.com [91.218.175.174]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6ECC1FF7C2 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.174 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1731505839; cv=none; b=QioYyUb/03Pd9Gk7U3VksNP5AjqIkz+ZbTlH4FPsZafvfoz6xd00tBMQUK334CDDzv0YWh4wuS4EYCYKQLag1Wosl/XPauJWl9ti5vKIYTJ1si0U6w4N9HLR839O1V61iqf5NovlBxm4Oze45+NLARRlqRmEvtW4ztHL1InJIvU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1731505839; c=relaxed/simple; bh=6d0TCAATrTJvLklNJuJFCXHB59t+lCUztzfjePx3hbk=; h=Mime-Version:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Cc:Subject:From:To: References:In-Reply-To; b=nmlGmedXgoj75Yd5ej4Jkctls6vDRanaCjxPNxJAo+rutWp8uxRdyNh6lcXUtgFVRNMRAsPhcybQqrDNvJi5MMuqu4ow2cF4KIPJtLwTsiqi8T1KiXcRRaEqlOw9K/tecdgEj1WXSw8SodnyX20J3KY4A1G46HMRv54mpVHa5ik= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=cknow.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cknow.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=cknow.org header.i=@cknow.org header.b=O73JTAg/; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.174 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=cknow.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cknow.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=cknow.org header.i=@cknow.org header.b="O73JTAg/" Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cknow.org; s=key1; t=1731505834; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=PmllX3O7yxtB5t0j4bQtEHSmJfWKhMTYAv9DCsBoJZM=; b=O73JTAg//QJoYdwUErx2lA+B6M7RbBITJFB/W+Frn7zNRqiykvBYaRSZXET1PWmLNuS1rl 41i9aDd5ejCHTmsc/jw//vLLh/XtaVid4gDBd8rlsInSlmXrtdSFaj99LRyERrHZgKyBQ3 3YIWI/TIE4A92/J6njCOKCnTOyKNEWIG6ZC3MCshPOv7pZJ/kR2WMc7lGXfTLM5peqvwrD 1F8AqAGAhrwnSQQWtj53n7UDK+bGzczL5HF4M2vmaquSF6s1iMrUihWg/vSU8jY2q6TmCg FOaPnf2kVVXAhL59ocBsKVN6FFkiH0Wa9YjwKrENYt1EMWKNGnvTlGaZa9GqEQ== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=77415465acc9522a1101e182929d3f2ef91789092f296f44cef46464e604; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:50:31 +0100 Message-Id: Cc: , "Shawn Lin" , "Sudeep Holla" Subject: Re: Q: Kconfig: 'If unsure, say N' X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: "Diederik de Haas" To: "Harald Arnesen" , References: <93f4889a-90ed-460d-b5bc-d566031b75d3@skogtun.org> In-Reply-To: <93f4889a-90ed-460d-b5bc-d566031b75d3@skogtun.org> X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT --77415465acc9522a1101e182929d3f2ef91789092f296f44cef46464e604 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, On Fri Nov 8, 2024 at 4:05 PM CET, Harald Arnesen wrote: > Diederik de Haas [2024-11-08 15:39:30]: > > > In quite a number of Kconfig help text entries I see this: > > "If unsure, say N." > >=20 > > But that raises the question: How can I be sure? > > I usually interpret this as "If you don't know that you need it, you=20 > probably don't". Yeah, that does sound like a sensible strategy. Thanks :) Cheers, Diederik --77415465acc9522a1101e182929d3f2ef91789092f296f44cef46464e604 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYIAB0WIQT1sUPBYsyGmi4usy/XblvOeH7bbgUCZzSuqgAKCRDXblvOeH7b bg9sAQCQIhmyfDegBHLU0t/wVSrhFxgdD/qmbad+f4pUjRXpNAD+MEYe3/SOG2c7 xllMMEdS00fO9xp3IP52ZNe6NR5ziQ4= =713h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --77415465acc9522a1101e182929d3f2ef91789092f296f44cef46464e604--