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From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
To: dwmw2@infradead.org, scote1@matrox.com
Cc: mtd@infradead.org, tao@acc.umu.se
Subject: Re: Config.in
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:58:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200007140358.WAA26445@duracef.shout.net> (raw)

I introduced define_tristate in the 2.3 series.

I am not following the MTD discussion, but I gather the idea is to use
the same Config.in files for both 2.2 and 2.3.  If you need to do that,
I suppose you can use define_bool and get away with it.

define_tristate exists in order to help tighten up the type system in
Config Language.  The idea is to improve the tools so that they can give
warnings and errors about things like "this variable is a boolean in
one place and a tristate in another".  If this ever actually happens,
I hope that drivers/mtd/Config.in can be edited at that time to conform.

Just some historical two cent's worth from an old has-been.  :)

Michael


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             reply	other threads:[~2000-07-14  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-14  3:58 Michael Elizabeth Chastain [this message]
2000-07-14  7:30 ` Config.in David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-07-12  8:19 mtd devices & jffs David Woodhouse
2000-07-11 21:23 ` Juan Gonzo
2000-07-12  9:35   ` David Woodhouse
2000-07-13 12:53     ` Config.in Sébastien Côté
2000-07-13 13:43       ` Config.in David Woodhouse
2000-07-13 13:58         ` Config.in Sébastien Côté

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