On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:06:01 -0800 Florian Fainelli wrote: > >> Right, but once you start hiding NET_VENDOR_DRIVER_XYZ under a > >> NET_VENDOR_XYZ Kconfig symbol dependency, if NET_VENDOR_XYZ is not set > >> to Y, then you have no way to select NET_VENDOR_DRIVER_XYZ and so your > >> old defconfig breaks. > > > > To be clear do we actually care about *old* configs or *def* configs? > > I think we care about oldconfig but maybe less so about defconfigs which > are in tree and can be updated. The oldconfigs would have to not be updated on any intervening kernel in the last 10+ years to break, right? Or is there another way that an oldconfig would not have the vendor config set to y at this point?
