linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] kconfig: autogenerated config_is

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Message-ID: <4DD18A18.5050006@suse.cz>
Date:	Mon, 16 May 2011 22:33:28 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@...il.com>
Cc:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kconfig: autogenerated config_is_xxx macro

On 16.5.2011 22:24, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:
>> I figure that this feature is not wanted outside of the kernel build,
>> though. So what about an option to 'conf' that controls whether these
>> macros will be generated?
>>
> kconfig internal behaviors are mostly controlled by environment
> variable, which has the advantage to be front-end agnostic, that might
> be better.

Note that the header file is written by scripts/kconfig/conf
--silentoldconfig, so different front-ends are not an issue. But an
environment variable works fine as well.

Michal
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