linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix dependency generation

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Date:	Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:14:57 +0100
From:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	<sam@...nborg.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix dependency generation

>>> Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> 29.03.07 18:38 >>>
>On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:06:24 +0100 Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> >>> Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> 29.03.07 17:39 >>>
>> >> --- linux-2.6.21-rc5/scripts/basic/fixdep.c	2007-02-04 19:44:54.000000000 +0100
>> >> +++ 2.6.21-rc5-fixdep-mod/scripts/basic/fixdep.c	2007-03-29 11:11:10.000000000 +0200
>> >> @@ -29,8 +29,7 @@
>> >>   * option which is mentioned in any of the listed prequisites.
>> >>   *
>> >>   * To be exact, split-include populates a tree in include/config/,
>> >> - * e.g. include/config/his/driver.h, which contains the #define/#undef
>> >> - * for the CONFIG_HIS_DRIVER option.
>> >
>> >I don't see why you deleted the line above.
>> 
>> Because it is no longer true. These files are empty as of 2.6.18.
>
>We seem to be talking about different lines above.  Yes, the files
>are empty, but they are named based on the CONFIG_symbol name, which
>is what I was trying to get at.  So how about a comment like this:
>
> * To be exact, split-include populates a tree in include/config/,
> * e.g., include/config/sysctl/syscall.h,
> * for the CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL option, when that option
> * is enabled (=y or =m).

Shouldn't that then be '..., when that option is or ever was enabled
(=y or =m) since last cleaning the tree'?

Jan
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