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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708131510140.14058@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:13:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, sam@...nborg.org,
	zippel@...ux-m68k.org, vincent.legoll@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: update kconfig-language text

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:38:09AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
> >
> > Add kconfig-language docs for mainmenu, def_bool[ean],
> > and def_tristate.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@...il.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt |   12 ++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> >
> > --- linux-2.6.23-rc3.orig/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> > +++ linux-2.6.23-rc3/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> > @@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
> >    Optionally, dependencies only for this default value can be added with
> >    "if".
> >
> > +- type definition + default value:
> > +	"def_bool"/"def_boolean"/"def_tristate" <expr> ["if" <expr>]
> >...
>
> Should the redundant and unused def_boolean be documented or removed?
>
> I'd prefer the latter.

me too.  and, as i've suggested before, it would also be cleaner to
remove the redundant "requires" and almost redundant "depends" from
Kconfig files, and standardize exclusively on "depends on".

at the moment, there are only five Kconfig files that use the far less
common "depends" directive:

./drivers/telephony/Kconfig:    depends ISA || PCI
./drivers/leds/Kconfig: depends LEDS_CLASS && ARCH_H1940
./drivers/input/misc/Kconfig:   depends EXPERIMENTAL
./arch/blackfin/Kconfig:        depends BFIN_DMA_5XX
./arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig:       depends PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE

adjust those and there's no reason to hang on to "depends" any longer.

rday
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