From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268220AbUHKURi (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:17:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268216AbUHKURi (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:17:38 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:7900 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268215AbUHKURd (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:17:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:17:25 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Arnd Bergmann , zippel@linux-m68k.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig , wli@holomorphy.com, davem@redhat.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, linux390@de.ibm.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA" Message-ID: <20040811201725.GJ26174@fs.tum.de> References: <20040807170122.GM17708@fs.tum.de> <20040807181051.A19250@infradead.org> <20040807172518.GA25169@fs.tum.de> <200408072013.01168.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408072013.01168.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 08:12:56PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >... > On Samstag, 7. August 2004 19:25, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Is there eny reason for such options that are never visible nor enabled, > > or could they be removed? > > Yes, the reason is that some other options depend on them. We added the > PCMCIA option to arch/s390/Kconfig to stop kbuild from asking about > some drivers that won't work anyway. > > E.g. drivers/scsi/pcmcia starts with > > menu "PCMCIA SCSI adapter support" > depends on SCSI!=n && PCMCIA!=n && MODULES > > which evaluate to true if the PCMCIA option is not known. Changing > that to > > menu "PCMCIA SCSI adapter support" > depends on SCSI && PCMCIA && MODULES > > solves this in a different way, but I'm not 100% sure if it still has > the same meaning. Roman, is it intentional that PCMCIA!=n is true if there's no PCMCIA option, or is it simply a bug? > Arnd <>< cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed