Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA"

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:25AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> > > Roman, a related Q.
> > > Why not error out, or at least warn when encountering an unknow
> > > symbol in a 'depends on' statement?
> > >...
> > 
> > That doesn't sound like a good idea, consider e.g.:
> > 
> > config BAGETLANCE
> >         tristate "Baget AMD LANCE support"
> >         depends on NET_ETHERNET && BAGET_MIPS
> 
> This is less a problem, as here it's clear that you want a boolean result, 
> but something like "FOO=n" is really a string compare and FOO could be of 
> any type (that 99% of all symbols are boolean/tristate symbols doesn't 
> really help).

Wouldn't it be better to require a string or hex to always be quoted  
like "somestring"?

This way y/m/n would always have a non-string type.

> bye, Roman

cu
Adrian

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