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Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:29:06 +0100
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: <mingo@elte.hu>, "Harvey Harrison" <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
       <tglx@linutronix.de>, "Roman Zippel" <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
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Subject: def_bool n
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Could either of you clarify what the significance of such a construct
(encountered several times in arch/x86/Kconfig alone) is?

At first, I noticed it only with GENERIC_LOCKBREAK (it is my
understanding that this block can go away entirely), but then realized
that with the bool->def_bool conversion this was introduced in various
other places (where "default n" was used before, which seems as
pointless a statement). Am I missing something?

Thanks, Jan