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Documentation/process: Add CONFIG default value to submit-checklist

Add default value review to the submit checklist, referring to the
preference for "default n" from the previous patch added to
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt.

Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Darren Hart (VMware) 7 years ago
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Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst

@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ and elsewhere regarding submitting Linux kernel patches.
    You should be able to justify all violations that remain in
    You should be able to justify all violations that remain in
    your patch.
    your patch.
 
 
-6) Any new or modified ``CONFIG`` options don't muck up the config menu.
+6) Any new or modified ``CONFIG`` options do not muck up the config menu and
+  default to off unless they meet the exception criteria documented in
+  ``Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt`` Menu attributes: default value.
 
 
 7) All new ``Kconfig`` options have help text.
 7) All new ``Kconfig`` options have help text.