From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel coding style for if ... else which cross #ifdef
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 11:08:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <483859BB.9030809@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080524064201.GA4133@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> I don't think we want to use "1 or 2"... I suspect we want to use the
>> same booleans we currently have.
> I'm a bit dense (or I need more coffe - it's morning here).
> What "same booleans"?
Sorry, we already have CONFIG_FOO (meaning =y) and CONFIG_FOO_MODULE
(meaning =m). This seems to work well and will generally do the right
thing.
If we had CFG_FOO=2 for the case of FOO=n then the clean use of:
if (CFG_FOO && blah)...
... wouldn't work as nicely.
>> I would suggest CFG_* instead of CONFIG_* for the new set.
> Agreed.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-24 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-23 19:11 kernel coding style for if ... else which cross #ifdef Steve French
2008-05-23 20:42 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-23 20:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-23 21:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-23 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-24 5:43 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 5:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-24 6:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 10:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-24 10:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-24 11:27 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 14:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-24 14:39 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-24 14:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-24 14:46 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-24 15:36 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 15:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-24 15:57 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-24 16:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-24 16:40 ` Tom Spink
2008-05-24 16:42 ` Tom Spink
2008-05-24 20:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-24 20:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-24 20:51 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-24 20:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-24 21:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-25 23:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-26 0:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-24 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-24 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-24 18:51 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-05-24 18:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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