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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.6p6: dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 17:23:42 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26219.994058622@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jul 2001 08:16:50 +0100." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0107020810340.18977-100000@infradead.org>

On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 08:16:50 +0100 (BST), 
Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX> wrote:
> Q> dep_arch_tristate '  AM79C961A support' CONFIG_ARM_AM79C961A \
> Q>	"$CONFIG_ARCH_ACORN" $CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET
>
>That adds only two extra characters, neither conspicuous, and PASSES
>my code.

It relies on everybody writing new dep_arch_... rules to remember the
quotes.  You are just introducing another source of human error.  That
is how this mess occurred, no automatic validation of input.


  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-02  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-30 14:57 linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs Adam J. Richter
2001-06-30 15:01 ` Russell King
2001-06-30 20:36   ` 2.4.6p6: " Riley Williams
2001-07-01  3:00     ` 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 [this message]
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
2001-07-01  2:39   ` linux-2.4.6-pre6: numerous " Keith Owens
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-02  2:25 [PATCH] Re: 2.4.6p6: " Adam J. Richter
2001-07-02  2:48 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-02  7:22   ` Riley Williams
2001-07-02  3:34 Adam J. Richter
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  5:52 Adam J. Richter
2001-07-02  6:21 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-02 10:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-02  6:03 Adam J. Richter
2001-07-02  9:29 Adam J. Richter

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