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List:       linux-arch
Subject:    Re: [Kconfig] add disable command (was Re: [patch] s390 kconfig
From:       Andrew Morton <akpm () osdl ! org>
Date:       2006-07-07 19:27:24
Message-ID: 20060707122724.a7b5243c.akpm () osdl ! org
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On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:19:08 +0200
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 10:41 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Even better would be to teach the Kconfig sytem about this, so in
> > arch/s390/Kconfig we do
> > 
> > disable	VT
> > 
> > and the Kconfig system knows not to offer VT, so there's no need to go
> > adding `depends on !DISABLE_foo' all over the place.  The above DISABLE_foo
> > convention just simulates that missing feature.
> > 
> > 
> > > +	depends on !PPC && !PARISC && !IA64 && !M68K && (!SPARC || PCI) && !FRV && !ARM && !S390
> > 
> > Imagine not having crud like this in there.
> 
> I've given this a try and implemented the "disable" command. Seems to
> work fine for me. The command would certainly make my life easier in
> regard to the s390 Kconfig stuff.

Neat.  Now we all need to cower in fear at Roman's reaction ;)

One would expect that doing "/VGA_CONSOLE" in menuconfig would answer the
question "ytf can't I enable VGA_CONSOLE".
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