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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
	Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.5.25 net/core/Makefile
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:37:41 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207221032510.8911-100000@serv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020722090704.A2052@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:

> Wouldn't it be better to fix the existing config tools to output "=n"
> instead of "# CONFIG_foo is not set" ?  IIRC they do the translation
> back and forth internally anyway, so it should be just a matter of
> removing some code from the tools.

This would mean, tristate symbols had four states instead of three. The
current shell based config systems simply don't see all symbols.
Depending on the configuration a symbol could be unset or 'n'.

bye, Roman


  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-22  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-06  8:30 [patch] 2.5.25 net/core/Makefile Keith Owens
2002-07-09  0:11 ` Dave Jones
2002-07-09  0:30   ` Keith Owens
2002-07-09  0:36     ` Dave Jones
2002-07-09  2:13       ` Keith Owens
2002-07-09  2:24         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-07-21 23:56 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-07-22  1:08   ` Keith Owens
2002-07-22  8:07     ` Russell King
2002-07-22  8:37       ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2002-07-22  8:51         ` Andreas Schwab
2002-07-22  8:55           ` Russell King
2002-07-22  9:23             ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-22 14:29       ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-07-11  3:53 Thunder from the hill

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