AFAIUI, the current default is meant to make Intel wireless cards work by default, since different people have different hardware configurations.
[...] and makes the default configuration for a board more likely to work well.
This is why NO_INTEL_WIFI is going to be enabled only at systems where it is highly improbable to meet the Intel PCI-e WiFi module. For example, you can't meet Intel WiFi at Emulation boards, but DRIVERS_INTEL_WIFI is erroneously enabled even for such boards.
It does no harm to those without such hardware, and anyone who doesn't want to use the driver can disable it in Kconfig.
It consumes a few kilobytes at CBFS, and after seeing that all the other Generic Drivers are disabled by default I can't understand why there should be made an exception for Intel.
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