Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA"

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> > Roman, a related Q.
> > Why not error out, or at least warn when encountering an unknow
> > symbol in a 'depends on' statement?
> >...
> 
> That doesn't sound like a good idea, consider e.g.:
> 
> config BAGETLANCE
>         tristate "Baget AMD LANCE support"
>         depends on NET_ETHERNET && BAGET_MIPS

This is less a problem, as here it's clear that you want a boolean result, 
but something like "FOO=n" is really a string compare and FOO could be of 
any type (that 99% of all symbols are boolean/tristate symbols doesn't 
really help).

bye, Roman
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