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From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
To: kaos@ocs.com.au, rhw@MemAlpha.CX
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.6p6: dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 19:25:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107020225.TAA02230@adam.yggdrasil.com> (raw)

	Does anyone know if there is any code that would break if
we put quotation marks around the $CONFIG_xxxx references in the
dep_xxx commands in all of the Config.in files?  In other words,
change all commands of the form

dep_tristate  CONFIG_FOO 'Foo on x86/pci machines'  $CONFIG_PCI $CONFIG_X86

to

dep_tristate  CONFIG_FOO 'Foo on x86/pci machines'  "$CONFIG_PCI" "$CONFIG_X86"

      Then, we could change dep_{bool,tristate} to only treat "" as "n",
in its dependency parameters without effecting how undefined variables
are treated elsewhere.  For example, CONFIG_FOO being undefined would
still cause "make oldconfig" to treat it as "NEW" and ask the user
about it.

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             reply	other threads:[~2001-07-02  2:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-02  2:25 Adam J. Richter [this message]
2001-07-02  2:48 ` [PATCH] Re: 2.4.6p6: dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs Keith Owens
2001-07-02  7:22   ` Riley Williams
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-02  9:29 Adam J. Richter
2001-07-02  6:03 Adam J. Richter
2001-07-02  5:52 Adam J. Richter
2001-07-02  6:21 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-02 10:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02  4:46 Adam J. Richter
2001-07-02  4:51 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-02  9:29   ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-07-02  3:34 Adam J. Richter
2001-07-01  3:00 2.4.6p6: numerous " Keith Owens
2001-07-01 23:04 ` [PATCH] Re: 2.4.6p6: " Riley Williams
2001-07-02  0:39   ` Keith Owens
2001-07-02  7:16     ` Riley Williams
2001-07-02  7:23       ` Keith Owens
2001-07-02  8:25         ` Riley Williams
2001-07-02  9:41           ` Russell King
2001-07-02 12:40             ` Riley Williams
2001-07-02 15:03               ` Russell King
2001-07-02 16:28                 ` Nicolas Pitre

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