linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] rfkill: Regulator consumer driver for rfkill

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Date:	Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:17:20 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Antonio Ospite <ospite@...denti.unina.it>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, openezx-devel@...ts.openezx.org,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
	Guiming Zhuo <gmzhuo@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rfkill: Regulator consumer driver for rfkill

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 22:15 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 22:10 +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 14:38 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > The syntax may seem strange,
> > 
> > It does!
> > 
> > > but basically it just says "don't let me by y if RFKILL is m"
> > 
> > ... but, besides that, I can be any value. So in effect it's shorthand
> > for
> > 	depends on RFKILL=y || RFKILL=m && m || RFKILL=n
> > 
> > (which actually looks equally strange). Is that correct?
> 
> I don't think it is, I believe that an expression like "RFKILL=y" has a
> bool type, and a tristate type value that depends on a bool type can
> still take the value m.

Err, which is of course perfectly fine since if RFKILL is built in this
can be any value, and in the RFKILL=m case you force it to m by making
it depend on m directly. So yes, you're right.

johannes

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