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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, geert@linux-m68k.org,
	Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk, chrisw@sous-sol.org, matthew@wil.cx
Subject: Re: [patch] s390 kconfig cleanup, 2nd version.
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:35:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151922910.5334.10.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060703022026.495cdb2c.akpm@osdl.org>

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 02:20 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > That would be a very useful feature to have. There are some border cases
> > where no real positive dependency exist. For that a "disable xxx" would
> > be perfect. But we still should use positive dependencies where possible
> > to keep the disable lists short.
> > 
> 
> I don't understand that.
> 
> 	depends on !DISABLE_FOO
> 
> is short?

I was after the options that can be dealt with an existing positive
dependency, e.g. "depends on PCI", or "depends on ISA". I have a handful
of these in my patch. 

-- 
blue skies,
  Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-03 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-30 12:26 [patch] s390 kconfig cleanup, 2nd version Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 12:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-30 12:54   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 12:44 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 13:04   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 13:09     ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 13:20       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-30 13:28       ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-06-30 14:05         ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 14:15           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-06-30 14:20           ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-03 23:15             ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-03 23:35               ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-04 12:42                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-04 13:08                   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-07-04 15:23                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-07-04 18:09                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-01  2:38           ` Paul Mackerras
2006-06-30 14:13       ` Kyle McMartin
2006-06-30 14:20         ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-30 17:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-30 18:28   ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-03  9:10   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-03  9:20     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-03 10:35       ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2006-07-07 16:19   ` [Kconfig] add disable command (was Re: [patch] s390 kconfig cleanup, 2nd version) Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-07 19:27     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-07 16:19   ` [Kconfig] use " Martin Schwidefsky
2006-07-07 19:48     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-07-08 23:42       ` Ralf Baechle

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