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Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 22:33:28 +0200
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kconfig: autogenerated config_is_xxx macro
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On 16.5.2011 22:24, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>> I figure that this feature is not wanted outside of the kernel build,
>> though. So what about an option to 'conf' that controls whether these
>> macros will be generated?
>>
> kconfig internal behaviors are mostly controlled by environment
> variable, which has the advantage to be front-end agnostic, that might
> be better.

Note that the header file is written by scripts/kconfig/conf
--silentoldconfig, so different front-ends are not an issue. But an
environment variable works fine as well.

Michal