'default n' is the default value for any bool or tristate Kconfig setting so there is no need to write it explicitly. Also since commit f467c5640c29 ("kconfig: only write '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' for visible symbols") the Kconfig behavior is the same regardless of 'default n' being present or not: ... One side effect of (and the main motivation for) this change is making the following two definitions behave exactly the same: config FOO bool config FOO bool default n With this change, neither of these will generate a '# CONFIG_FOO is not set' line (assuming FOO isn't selected/implied). That might make it clearer to people that a bare 'default n' is redundant. ... Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) Index: b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig =================================================================== --- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig 2018-09-26 15:54:31.942819766 +0200 +++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig 2018-10-10 16:38:09.691897907 +0200 @@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ config ACPI_REV_OVERRIDE_POSSIBLE config ACPI_EC_DEBUGFS tristate "EC read/write access through /sys/kernel/debug/ec" - default n help Say N to disable Embedded Controller /sys/kernel/debug interface @@ -283,7 +282,6 @@ config ACPI_PROCESSOR config ACPI_IPMI tristate "IPMI" depends on IPMI_HANDLER - default n help This driver enables the ACPI to access the BMC controller. And it uses the IPMI request/response message to communicate with BMC @@ -361,7 +359,6 @@ config ACPI_TABLE_UPGRADE config ACPI_DEBUG bool "Debug Statements" - default n help The ACPI subsystem can produce debug output. Saying Y enables this output and increases the kernel size by around 50K. @@ -374,7 +371,6 @@ config ACPI_DEBUG config ACPI_PCI_SLOT bool "PCI slot detection driver" depends on SYSFS - default n help This driver creates entries in /sys/bus/pci/slots/ for all PCI slots in the system. This can help correlate PCI bus addresses, @@ -436,7 +432,6 @@ config ACPI_HED config ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD tristate "Allow ACPI methods to be inserted/replaced at run time" depends on DEBUG_FS - default n help This debug facility allows ACPI AML methods to be inserted and/or replaced without rebooting the system. For details refer to: @@ -481,7 +476,6 @@ config ACPI_EXTLOG tristate "Extended Error Log support" depends on X86_MCE && X86_LOCAL_APIC && EDAC select UEFI_CPER - default n help Certain usages such as Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) require more information about the error than what can be described in