Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765338AbYASEpZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:45:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762050AbYASEpO (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:45:14 -0500 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:3145 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761257AbYASEpN (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:45:13 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:44:50 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Sam Ravnborg cc: Jan Beulich , Randy Dunlap , david-b@pacbell.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: non-choice related config entries within choice In-Reply-To: <20080116115233.GA26776@uranus.ravnborg.org> Message-ID: References: <478DF61E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> <20080116115233.GA26776@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 35 Hi, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > But one feature I really would like to see is named chocies so we can do stuff like: > > choice X86_PROCESSOR > > config GENERIC_PROCESSOR > bool "A generic X86 processor" > endchoice > > > ... > > choice PPC_PROCESSOR > > config GENERIC_PROCESSOR > bool "A generic PowerPC processor > > endchoice > > The issue here is that we do not today allow the same config option > to appear if more than one choice. What I have in mind is slightly different, above choices would simply be called PROCESSOR, which would tell kconfig that all choices belong to the same group. bye, Roman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/