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To: Greg Banks <gnb@alphalink.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements
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[Sam Ravnborg]
> How about extending the language (side effect) to automagically
> append (EXPERIMENTAL) or (OBSOLETE) to the menu line, if dependent
> on those special tags?

I've thought about that too.  Menuconfig already has magic code to
append ' (NEW)' if it hasn't seen a symbol before.

Your proposed change, however, cannot be easily parsed until we make
'$' optional (and deprecated) in dep_* tags.  The existing Configure
and Menuconfig borrow the /bin/sh parser which, if allowed to see
"$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL", will expand it too early to be of use.

Peter
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