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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:19:30 +1000
From: Greg Banks <gnb@alphalink.com.au>
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To: Kai Germaschewski <kai-germaschewski@uiowa.edu>
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements
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Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> 
> > > So you agree a bit of spring cleaning wouldn't hurt, right? ;)
> >
> > Absolutely, and I have a catalogue of dust puppies to help that process ;-)
> 
> Okay. Let me first state that I do not really have the time to get
> involved currently. ISDN4Linux and other pending kbuild stuff already
> takes somewhat more than the remaining free time I have. But if you guys
> want to get going with some step by step cleaning (w/o breaking too much),
> I can try to help reviewing and submitting to Linus.

Great.

> Basically, extend the "source" command to do a grep CONFIG_* in the file
> to be read and set all found symbols to "n", if unset - only then do
> the actual "source".

Ah, interesting idea.

> Anyway, some more points:
> 
> o a) dep_bool '  Blah' CONFIG_FOO $CONFIG_BAR         vs.
>   b) dep_bool '  Blah' CONFIG_FOO CONFIG_BAR

I assume you include in a) the change which gives all symbols an "n" default.
Then b) is clearly the evolutionary approach and less likely to result in a
partially broken config system come Halloween.

Greg.
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