Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:51:39 +0100
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kbuild: shorthand ym2y, ym2m etc
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:44:52PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
 > This can be fixed by changing Kconfig to evaluate all known symbols to
> > either y,m,n - in contradiction to today where symbols that evaluate
> > to n is left empty.
> 
> Isn't that rather hard to achieve, unless all Kconfig files (including
> all architecture specific ones) are read?  Eg, CONFIG_PPC wouldn't
> exist on ARM.

Exactly - thats why I wrote "all known".
I do not see this as the solution that solve more than it breaks.
So I have not even tried it out.

	Sam
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