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    SubjectRe: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA"
    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).

    bye, Roman
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