Re: config language shortcomings in 2.4

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:04, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Sorry for the belated response, but certainly it should not be necessary 
> to do:
> 
> if [ "$CONFIG_FW_LOADER" = "m" -o "$CONFIG_FW_LOADER" = "y" ]; then
> 	HAVE_SOME_FW_LOADER=y
> fi
> if [ "$CONFIG_CRC32" = "m" -o "$CONFIG_CRC32" = "m" ]; then
> 	HAVE_SOME_CRC32=y
> fi
> 
> if [ "$HAVE_SOME_CRC32" = "y" -a "$HAVE_SOME_FW_LOADER" = "y" ]; then
> 	dep_tristate 'Broadcom Tigon3 support' CONFIG_TIGON3 $CONFIG_PCI 
> $HAVE_SOME_FW_LOADER $HAVE_SOME_CRC32
> fi

Just in case someone goes to copy and paste the above, there's a typo:
CONFIG_CRC32 = m or = m.

> Anyway, it's all very disgusting and I'm inclined to just ignore it and 
> maybe some benevolent soul will one day port Kconfig back to 2.4.

Hehe. I had to do something similar when I made suspend 2 able to be
compiled as modules. It could certainly be more elegant.

Nigel
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