what is the rationale for all ethernet device vendors being "default y"?

[Bjørn Mork]

"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:

>   just noticed that on my x86 system, when i do a:
>
>   $ make defconfig
>
> under "Ethernet driver support", all the top-level vendor choices
> (3com, adaptec and so on) all have Kconfig entries with:
>
>   default y
>
> reasonably, for each vendor, all of their cards are not "default y"
> (that would be kind of silly), but what is the logic behind making
> each vendor selection "default y"?

To avoid introducing build regressions with the introduction of these
directories:
http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2011/08/23/41

This is because these directories were retro-fitted to the Kbuild system
for most ethernet drivers.



Bjørn