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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.4.6p6: dep_{bool,tristate} $CONFIG_ARCH_xxx bugs 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Jul 2001 08:16:50 +0100."
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On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 08:16:50 +0100 (BST), 
Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX> wrote:
> Q> dep_arch_tristate '  AM79C961A support' CONFIG_ARM_AM79C961A \
> Q>	"$CONFIG_ARCH_ACORN" $CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET
>
>That adds only two extra characters, neither conspicuous, and PASSES
>my code.

It relies on everybody writing new dep_arch_... rules to remember the
quotes.  You are just introducing another source of human error.  That
is how this mess occurred, no automatic validation of input.

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