From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 21:56:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 21:56:10 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:50443 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 7 May 2001 21:56:05 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 21:56:18 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Tom Rini Cc: Alan Cox , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up Message-ID: <20010507215618.B21552@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Tom Rini , Alan Cox , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010505192731.A2374@thyrsus.com> <20010507105950.A771@opus.bloom.county> <20010507213140.I16535@thyrsus.com> <20010507184315.A2378@opus.bloom.county> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010507184315.A2378@opus.bloom.county>; from trini@kernel.crashing.org on Mon, May 07, 2001 at 06:43:15PM -0700 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tom Rini : > Only sort-of. There are some cases where you can get away with that. > Probably. eg If you ask for PARPORT, on x86 that means yes to PARPORT_PC, > always (right?) Yes. So the right answer there isn't to use a derivation but to say: require X86 and PARPORT implies PARPORT_PC unless X86==n suppress PARPORT_PC which forces PARPORT_PC==y and makes the question invisible on X86 machines, but leaves the question visible on all others. -- Eric S. Raymond The real point of audits is to instill fear, not to extract revenue; the IRS aims at winning through intimidation and (thereby) getting maximum voluntary compliance -- Paul Strassel, former IRS Headquarters Agent Wall St. Journal 1980