Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 8 May 2001 08:57:40 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: CML2 design philosophy heads-up |
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On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:56:18PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>: > > Only sort-of. There are some cases where you can get away with > > that. Probably. eg If you ask for PARPORT, on x86 that means yes > > to PARPORT_PC, always (right?) > > Yes. So the right answer there isn't to use a derivation but to say: > > require X86 and PARPORT implies PARPORT_PC > unless X86==n suppress PARPORT_PC > > which forces PARPORT_PC==y and makes the question invisible on X86 > machines, but leaves the question visible on all others.
Yes, but there are quite a lot of people who don't want parport/serial/whatever compiled into their kernels at all, eventhough they have an x86. Think low-memory systems or similar.
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