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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [patch] 2.5.25 net/core/Makefile 
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On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 18:56:24 -0500 (CDT), 
Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
>Makes sense to me. However, the CONFIG_ variables used in the Makefiles 
>are never "n", they are "y", "m" or undefined.
>
>In Config.in scripts you have to cater for "n" or "", and I've seen 
>various people on l-k carry this behavior into the Makefiles, but there 
>it's unnecessary for all I can tell.

It is required if you ever want autoconfigure to work, that
distinguishes between "" (undefined) and "n" (explicitly turned off).
Forward planning.

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