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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:37:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [patch] 2.5.25 net/core/Makefile
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Hi,

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Russell King wrote:

> Wouldn't it be better to fix the existing config tools to output "=n"
> instead of "# CONFIG_foo is not set" ?  IIRC they do the translation
> back and forth internally anyway, so it should be just a matter of
> removing some code from the tools.

This would mean, tristate symbols had four states instead of three. The
current shell based config systems simply don't see all symbols.
Depending on the configuration a symbol could be unset or 'n'.

bye, Roman

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