Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:47:12 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA" |
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:59:25AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > Roman, a related Q. > > > Why not error out, or at least warn when encountering an unknow > > > symbol in a 'depends on' statement? > > >... > > > > That doesn't sound like a good idea, consider e.g.: > > > > config BAGETLANCE > > tristate "Baget AMD LANCE support" > > depends on NET_ETHERNET && BAGET_MIPS > > This is less a problem, as here it's clear that you want a boolean result, > but something like "FOO=n" is really a string compare and FOO could be of > any type (that 99% of all symbols are boolean/tristate symbols doesn't > really help).
Wouldn't it be better to require a string or hex to always be quoted like "somestring"?
This way y/m/n would always have a non-string type.
> bye, Roman
cu Adrian
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