'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> --- block/Kconfig | 7 ------- block/Kconfig.iosched | 3 --- 2 files changed, 10 deletions(-) Index: b/block/Kconfig =================================================================== --- a/block/Kconfig 2018-10-09 15:58:37.031122890 +0200 +++ b/block/Kconfig 2018-10-09 16:30:22.959170887 +0200 @@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_BSG config BLK_DEV_BSGLIB bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib" - default n select BLK_DEV_BSG select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST help @@ -107,7 +106,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_ZONED config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING bool "Block layer bio throttling support" depends on BLK_CGROUP=y - default n ---help--- Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and @@ -119,7 +117,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW bool "Block throttling .low limit interface support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on BLK_DEV_THROTTLING - default n ---help--- Add .low limit interface for block throttling. The low limit is a best effort limit to prioritize cgroups. Depending on the setting, the limit @@ -130,7 +127,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER bool "Block device command line partition parser" - default n ---help--- Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from the kernel boot args. This is typically of use for embedded devices @@ -141,7 +137,6 @@ config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER config BLK_WBT bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling" - default n ---help--- Enabling this option enables the block layer to throttle buffered background writeback from the VM, making it more smooth and having @@ -152,7 +147,6 @@ config BLK_WBT config BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY bool "Enable support for latency based cgroup IO protection" depends on BLK_CGROUP=y - default n ---help--- Enabling this option enables the .latency interface for IO throttling. The IO controller will attempt to maintain average IO latencies below @@ -163,7 +157,6 @@ config BLK_CGROUP_IOLATENCY config BLK_WBT_SQ bool "Single queue writeback throttling" - default n depends on BLK_WBT ---help--- Enable writeback throttling by default on legacy single queue devices Index: b/block/Kconfig.iosched =================================================================== --- a/block/Kconfig.iosched 2018-09-03 18:11:21.201792278 +0200 +++ b/block/Kconfig.iosched 2018-10-09 16:30:54.207171674 +0200 @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ config IOSCHED_CFQ config CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED bool "CFQ Group Scheduling support" depends on IOSCHED_CFQ && BLK_CGROUP - default n ---help--- Enable group IO scheduling in CFQ. @@ -82,7 +81,6 @@ config MQ_IOSCHED_KYBER config IOSCHED_BFQ tristate "BFQ I/O scheduler" - default n ---help--- BFQ I/O scheduler for BLK-MQ. BFQ distributes the bandwidth of of the device among all processes according to their weights, @@ -94,7 +92,6 @@ config IOSCHED_BFQ config BFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED bool "BFQ hierarchical scheduling support" depends on IOSCHED_BFQ && BLK_CGROUP - default n ---help--- Enable hierarchical scheduling in BFQ, using the blkio