Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755362AbYJPP4M (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:56:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752918AbYJPPz5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:55:57 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:41636 "HELO xenotime.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751507AbYJPPz5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:55:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:55:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Randy.Dunlap" X-X-Sender: rddunlap@shark.he.net To: Prabhu Chawandi cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CONFIG Symbol In-Reply-To: <241b8f7b0810152356o62bd86eclfa4e0027e41ca563@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <241b8f7b0810152356o62bd86eclfa4e0027e41ca563@mail.gmail.com> 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: 1086 Lines: 33 On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Prabhu Chawandi wrote: > Hi All, > > I have added a symobol in thr config file, freshely ... eg. > CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE What kind of config file? Is it in a Kconfig* file? If so, then the CONFIG_ prefix is implicit and you should just use "USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE" as the symbol name. > i.e. there was no symbol at all ... but in the source code a check is > made for that symbol... > > So I have added that symbol in the config file,,, > unfortunately I am not getting that flag value reflected,,,, Maybe now it's CONFIG_CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE. > What I thought ,, Is there any other place where to identify this symbol... > > as we export any symbol... Config symbols are produced as include/linux/autoconf.h at build time, so you can look at that file to see what was produced/generated. -- ~Randy -- 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/