From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.5.25 net/core/Makefile
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:51:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jek7nof8m8.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207221032510.8911-100000@serv> (Roman Zippel's message of "Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:37:41 +0200 (CEST)")
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes:
|> Hi,
|>
|> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:
|>
|> > Wouldn't it be better to fix the existing config tools to output "=n"
|> > instead of "# CONFIG_foo is not set" ? IIRC they do the translation
|> > back and forth internally anyway, so it should be just a matter of
|> > removing some code from the tools.
|>
|> This would mean, tristate symbols had four states instead of three. The
|> current shell based config systems simply don't see all symbols.
They do, see for example load_config_file in scripts/Menuconfig, or around
line 556 in script/Configure.
|> Depending on the configuration a symbol could be unset or 'n'.
A symbol is unset if it does not occur in .config at all. Having "#
CONFIG_foo is not set" in .config is completely the same as
"CONFIG_foo=n".
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-22 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-06 8:30 [patch] 2.5.25 net/core/Makefile Keith Owens
2002-07-09 0:11 ` Dave Jones
2002-07-09 0:30 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-09 0:36 ` Dave Jones
2002-07-09 2:13 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-09 2:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-21 23:56 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-07-22 1:08 ` Keith Owens
2002-07-22 8:07 ` Russell King
2002-07-22 8:37 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-22 8:51 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2002-07-22 8:55 ` Russell King
2002-07-22 9:23 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-22 14:29 ` Kai Germaschewski
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2002-07-11 3:53 Thunder from the hill
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