From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53578C43613 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2019 23:50:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E3E2084E for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2019 23:50:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726134AbfFUXuM (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:50:12 -0400 Received: from kvm5.telegraphics.com.au ([98.124.60.144]:38118 "EHLO kvm5.telegraphics.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726045AbfFUXuM (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:50:12 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by kvm5.telegraphics.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0A2423EC0; Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:50:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 09:50:24 +1000 (AEST) From: Finn Thain To: Marc Gonzalez cc: Douglas Gilbert , Bart Van Assche , James Bottomley , Martin Petersen , SCSI , LKML , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] scsi: Don't select SCSI_PROC_FS by default In-Reply-To: <5d9d0851-f864-6d78-7e7d-9d018bea5704@free.fr> Message-ID: References: <2de15293-b9be-4d41-bc67-a69417f27f7a@free.fr> <621306ee-7ab6-9cd2-e934-94b3d6d731fc@acm.org> <017cf3cf-ecd8-19c2-3bbd-7e7c28042c3c@free.fr> <48912bc0-8c79-408d-7ed2-c127b99b8bcc@interlog.com> <5d9d0851-f864-6d78-7e7d-9d018bea5704@free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, Marc Gonzalez wrote: > On 21/06/2019 01:43, Finn Thain wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2019, Marc Gonzalez wrote: > > > >> How likely is it that distro kernels would *not* enable CHR_DEV_SG? > >> (Distros tend to enable everything, and then some.) > > > > How likely is it that embedded developers would *not* disable > > CHR_DEV_SG? They tend to disable everything, and then enable only what > > they need. > > I don't see where you're going with this line of reasoning? > Exactly. This sort of reasoning goes nowhere. > Below is my current (as of next-20190612) defconfig. > > Notice the options marked as "not set". These are options that are > enabled by default (and which I've disabled). > > Everyone thinks "their" option is critical (and it is, *to them*) but, > in fact, few really are -- universally. The relevant policy is documented in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt. If there are useful generalizations about the choice of defaults for Kconfig symbols (or changing those defaults) that are not documented then they probably should be. --