I would like to know the reasoning behind this change.

AFAIUI, the current default is meant to make Intel wireless cards work by default, since different people have different hardware configurations. It does no harm to those without such hardware, and makes the default configuration for a board more likely to work well. And anyone who doesn't want to use the driver can disable it in Kconfig.

Patch set 1:Code-Review -1

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• File src/drivers/intel/wifi/Kconfig:

  • Patch Set #1, Line 4: default y if PCIEXP_PLUGIN_SUPPORT && !NO_INTEL_WIFI

    iirc, the decision to default to `y` was because you can never […]

    I agree, negative Kconfig options are usually troublesome.

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