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Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:37:00 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>,
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Subject: Re: 64bit clean drivers was Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre1
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On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 10:19:05PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > > > The real solution (imo) is to add !$CONFIG_FOO support to the config
> > > > language.  Fortunately this is quite easy.  What do you people think?
> > > > I didn't do xconfig or config-language.txt but I can if desired.
> > >
> > > I think it would help a lot if you first update the latter and somehow
> > > describe what the negation in this context is supposed to mean.
> >
> > dependency is met when the symbol is not defined.
> >
> > What's the problem with the definition ?
> 
> Boolean is simple, what about tristate symbols? How does it modify the
> input range?

It doesn't. We just want a low tech simple solution, not a great new theoretic
building.

-Andi
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