Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.6p6: dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs

From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz (ankry@pg.gda.pl)
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 04:29:49 EST


Keith Owens wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:46:04 -0700,
> "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:
> >Can you even write a hypothetical example?
>
> if [ "$CONFIG_foo" = "n" -a "$CONFIG_bar" = "n" ]; then
> define_bool "$CONFIG_ALLOW_foo_bar n
> fi
> ....
> dep_tristate CONFIG_baz $CONFIG_ALLOW_foo_bar

Unfortunately this does not work as you expect (depends on history) if
any of CONFIG_foo CONFIG_bar can be changed.

When changing one of them to y, the value of CONFIG_ALLOW_foo_bar in
make menuconfig / make xconfig is not undefined...

Andrzej

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