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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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  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-11  3:53 Thunder from the hill

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