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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to force Kconfig tristate into range n..m?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 08:44:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070516154459.GA2060@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705161418.49151.ak@suse.de>

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:18:48PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> >
> > Is there some other way to prohibit modules from being compiled into
> > the main kernel?
> 
> One way is to use a separate symbol that is not user visible, but depends
> on your main symbol and uses default m
> 
> (similar to the now infamous CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN)

Cool!!!  Any problem you see with Randy Dunlap's suggestion of simply
adding "depends on m", though?

						Thanx, Paul

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-16 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-15 23:30 How to force Kconfig tristate into range n..m? Paul E. McKenney
2007-05-15 23:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-16  0:18   ` Paul E. McKenney
2007-05-16 12:18 ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-16 14:30   ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-16 15:36     ` Satyam Sharma
2007-05-16 15:44   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]

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