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SubjectRe: fake config option w/kbuild?
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Hi,

On Thursday 15 March 2007 16:19, Kumar Gala wrote:

> Guys, I was wondering if there was a way to have a fake config
> option, one that acts just like a normal config option, but doesn't
> get a #define CONFIG_<FOOBAR> .. for it and thus can't be used in code.
>
> I explain my problem, and maybe there is a better solution.
>
> I have a config option call QE that exists on two flavor's of
> powerpc. For PPC, we have one top level menu to select the processor
> (in this case 83xx or 85xx). We than have a second top level menu to
> select the platform (which board). The platform menu is where I want
> the 'QE' option to exist. Each flavor (83xx, 85xx) has its own
> Kconfig that defines what's in the platform menu. However, the QE
> config choice is common between them.
>
> So for now we are doing something like:
>
> arch/powerpc/Kconfig:
>
> config QE
> bool
> default n
>
> arch/powerpc/platform/83xx/Kconfig:
>
> config QE_83xx
> bool "QUICC Engine Support"
> select QE
> depends on PPC_MPC836x || PPC_MPC832x
> default y
> ---help---
> The QUICC Engine (QE) is a new generation of communications
> coprocessors on Freescale embedded CPUs (akin to CPM in
> older chips).
>
> arch/powerpc/platform/85xx/Kconfig:
>
> config QE_85xx
> bool "QUICC Engine Support"
> select QE
> depends on PPC_MPC8568
> default y
> ---help---
> The QUICC Engine (QE) is a new generation of communications
> coprocessors on Freescale embedded CPUs (akin to CPM in
> older chips).
>
> My initial question is that I don't want anyone using CONFIG_QE_83xx
> or CONFIG_QE_85xx in code, the second part is if there is a way to
> remove duplicating the QE_83xx/QE_85xx options down in platform/8{3,5}
> xx/Kconfig.

The duplication is maybe difficult to avoid without moving it, but a symbol
can have multiple prompts so you can just replace QE_8[35]xx with QE
(although a little more verbose name wouldn't hurt either).

bye, Roman
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