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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft.net, tony@bakeyournoodle.com, mmarek@suse.cz,
	lacombar@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: strip 15,000 lines from a typical autoconf.h
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:45:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120411184538.ec21844a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFx6V_TpbghsG7xqoBree8ALAKWMA+qLeGg-8DNAno+peg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:19:58 -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

>    #define IS_DEFINED(x) (__stringify(CONFIG_##x)[0]=='1')
> 
> That really is a piece of art. I'm expecting that the Guggenheim will
> contact me any moment now about it.

Several weeks ago I asked the assemblage if anyone could think of a way
of doing this.  It seems that I failed to Cc sufficiently perverted
parties.

> Of course, the above does *not* work for a pre-processor, but hey, you
> can't have everything.  It literally is *only* valid in C code. You
> can't have everything. 

So we shouldn't call it IS_DEFINED() - that would cause confusion with
the old version.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-12  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-11 23:50 [PATCH 0/5] RFC: strip 15,000 lines from a typical autoconf.h Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-11 23:50 ` [PATCH 1/5] Revert "mm: replace PAGE_MIGRATION with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MIGRATION)" Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-12  0:05   ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-11 23:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] ARM: remove C users of IS_ENABLED on THUMB2_KERNEL Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-11 23:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] drivers/net: remove IS_ENABLED usage from wiznet drivers Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-11 23:54   ` David Miller
2012-04-12  0:06     ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-04-12  0:22       ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-04-12 17:15     ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-12 17:15       ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-11 23:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] Revert "kconfig: fix __enabled_ macros definition for invisible and un-selected symbols" Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-11 23:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] kconfig: limit IS_ENABLED & similar to CPP usage Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-12  0:04   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-12 17:46     ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-12 17:46       ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-11 23:58 ` [PATCH 0/5] RFC: strip 15,000 lines from a typical autoconf.h Linus Torvalds
2012-04-12  1:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-12  1:45     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-04-12  1:55       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-12  3:10         ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-04-12 19:29           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-04-12 23:46             ` [PATCH 0/3] RFC v2: " Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-12 23:46               ` [PATCH 1/3] kconfig: fix IS_ENABLED to not require all options to be defined Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-13 10:31                 ` Dick Streefland
2012-04-12 23:46               ` [PATCH 2/3] Revert "kconfig: fix __enabled_ macros definition for invisible and un-selected symbols" Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-12 23:46               ` [PATCH 3/3] kconfig: delete last traces of __enabled_ from autoconf.h Paul Gortmaker
2012-04-12  9:27     ` [PATCH 0/5] RFC: strip 15,000 lines from a typical autoconf.h Michal Marek

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