Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:42:20 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Roman Zippel <> | | Subject | Re: Fwd: Using select in boolean dependents of a tristate symbol |
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Hi,
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Another question for you - what is the best way to describe > dependancy of a sub-option on a subsystem so you won't end up with the > subsystem as a module and user built in. Something like > > config IBM_ASM > tristate "Device driver for IBM RSA service processor" > depends on X86 && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL > ... > config IBM_ASM_INPUT > bool "Support for remote keyboard/mouse" > depends on IBM_ASM && (INPUT=y || INPUT=IMB_ASM) > > But the above feels yucky. Could we have something like: > > depends on matching(INPUT, IBM_ASM)
This is not really descriptive of what it does, is it? Linus suggested a syntax like (IBM_ASM && IMB_ASM<=INPUT) Another alternative which works now is to just disable the one invalid case explicitely:
depends on IBM_ASM && INPUT depends on !(IBM_ASM=y && INPUT=m)
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