Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:40:09 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] let DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH depend on BROKEN
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 08:33:06AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:56:48AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The pattern for making a config option on purpose not available is a 
> > dependency on BROKEN.
> BROKEN says that what is selected by the cofig option
> is broken.
> This is not the case for DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH which is
> why it was made dependent on something else.

BROKEN is our pattern for "intentionally disabled".

I did really grep for UNDEFINED when I first saw it since it might as 
well have been some kind of CONFIG_UNDEFINED "warn about undefined foobar".

> 	Sam

cu
Adrian

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