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@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ and elsewhere regarding submitting Linux kernel patches.
You should be able to justify all violations that remain in
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.