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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] kconfig: introduce the "imply" keyword
From: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
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On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 23:10 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > You probably got "["if" <expr>]" for free by copying what's there for
> > select. But this series doesn't use it, so perhaps it would be better
> > to not document it yet. But that is rather sneaky. Dunno.
> 
> If it is not documented then the chance that someone uses it are slim. 
> And since it comes "for free" I don't see the point of making the tool 
> less flexible. And not having this flexibility could make some 
> transitions from "select" to "imply" needlessly difficult.

My point is moot. I somehow missed that this series adds
    imply PTP_1588_CLOCK if TILEGX

So you are quite right in documenting this.


Paul Bolle