Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA"
From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 08/14/04
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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:47:12 +0200 To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:25AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > > Roman, a related Q.
> > > Why not error out, or at least warn when encountering an unknow
> > > symbol in a 'depends on' statement?
> > >...
> >
> > That doesn't sound like a good idea, consider e.g.:
> >
> > config BAGETLANCE
> > tristate "Baget AMD LANCE support"
> > depends on NET_ETHERNET && BAGET_MIPS
>
> This is less a problem, as here it's clear that you want a boolean result,
> but something like "FOO=n" is really a string compare and FOO could be of
> any type (that 99% of all symbols are boolean/tristate symbols doesn't
> really help).
Wouldn't it be better to require a string or hex to always be quoted
like "somestring"?
This way y/m/n would always have a non-string type.
> bye, Roman
cu
Adrian
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