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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
	kaos@ocs.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:20:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010630102024.A12009@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106300435.VAA14173@adam.yggdrasil.com> <E15GF94-0001h6-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15GF94-0001h6-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:26:22AM +0100

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:26:22AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> #2
> 	dep_tristate $FOO $BAR
> 
> to say 'FOO requires BAR and must be a similar setting _IF_CONFIGURED_'

Err, how can $BAR be undefined?  Configure sets all config variables which
are answered with 'n' to 'n'.

Therefore, if you do:

bool 'PNP?' PNP

dep_tristate 'FOO?' FOO $PNP

and you answer 'n' to PNP, then FOO will be 'n'.

Can you extract an example where #2 is actually used?

--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-30  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-30  4:35 linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30  7:26 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-30  9:20   ` Russell King [this message]
2001-06-30 11:43     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-30 11:58       ` Russell King
2001-06-30 12:01         ` Alan Cox
2001-06-30 12:02           ` Russell King
2001-06-30 11:45     ` Keith Owens
2001-06-30 12:10       ` Russell King
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-30 14:57 Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30 15:01 ` Russell King
2001-07-01  2:39   ` Keith Owens
2001-06-30 13:32 Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30  9:38 Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30  4:40 Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30  7:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-29 14:10 Adam J. Richter
2001-06-29 14:21 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-29 14:30   ` Russell King
2001-06-29 14:41     ` Keith Owens
2001-06-29 15:19     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-29 14:30 ` Jeff Garzik

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