From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265510AbUHNUrZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:47:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265348AbUHNUrY (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:47:24 -0400 Received: from hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de ([129.187.202.12]:25087 "HELO hermes.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265510AbUHNUrU (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:47:20 -0400 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:47:12 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Roman Zippel Cc: Arnd Bergmann , 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: <20040814204711.GD1387@fs.tum.de> References: <20040807170122.GM17708@fs.tum.de> <20040807181051.A19250@infradead.org> <20040807172518.GA25169@fs.tum.de> <200408072013.01168.arnd@arndb.de> <20040811201725.GJ26174@fs.tum.de> <20040811214032.GC7207@mars.ravnborg.org> <20040812001003.GV26174@fs.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "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