Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:59:25 +0200 (CEST) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA" |
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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).
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