Re: CONFIG Symbol

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Prabhu Chawandi wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
>   I have added a symobol in thr config file, freshely ... eg.
> CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE

What kind of config file?  Is it in a Kconfig* file?
If so, then the CONFIG_ prefix is implicit and you should just
use "USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE" as the symbol name.

> i.e. there was no symbol at all ... but in the source code a check is
> made for that symbol...
> 
>  So I have added that symbol in the config file,,,
> unfortunately I am not getting that  flag value reflected,,,,

Maybe now it's CONFIG_CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE.

> What I thought ,, Is there any other place where to identify this symbol...
> 
> as we export any symbol...

Config symbols are produced as include/linux/autoconf.h at build time,
so you can look at that file to see what was produced/generated.

-- 
~Randy
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