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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:37:30 -0500
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On Thursday 31 January 2002 07:30 pm, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>    Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 00:42:44 +0000 (GMT)
>
>    I'd like to eliminate lots of the magic weird cases in Config.in too -
> but by making the language express it. Something like
>
>    tristate_orif "blah" CONFIG_FOO $CONFIG_SMALL
>
> This doesn't solve the CRC32 case.  What if you want
> CONFIG_SMALL, yet some net driver that needs the crc32
> routines?

I thought this was the sort of reason CML2 was invented?

Rob
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