'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> --- arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) Index: b/arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine =================================================================== --- a/arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine 2018-09-03 18:11:11.397792454 +0200 +++ b/arch/m68k/Kconfig.machine 2018-10-16 15:32:04.359635259 +0200 @@ -317,7 +317,6 @@ config UBOOT help If you say Y here kernel will try to collect command line parameters from the initial u-boot stack. - default n config 4KSTACKS bool "Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb" @@ -395,7 +394,6 @@ comment "ROM configuration" config ROM bool "Specify ROM linker regions" - default n help Define a ROM region for the linker script. This creates a kernel that can be stored in flash, with possibly the text, and data