linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Only generate config_is

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Message-ID: <4DD2D017.8050609@suse.cz>
Date:	Tue, 17 May 2011 21:44:23 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: Only generate config_is_xxx for bool and tristate
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On 17.5.2011 20:05, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 17:35 Tue 17 May     , Michal Marek wrote:
>> For strings and integers, the config_is_xxx macros are useless and
>> sometimes misleading:
> except if the interger or hex can be at 0
> so the config_is_ is usefull to known that it's enabled

You can check if the option that the integer depends on is enabled.


>>   #define CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE ""
>>   #define config_is_initramfs_source() 1
> here agreed but I'm nor sure if it's a special case or if it will we the case
> for most of the string

Same here.

Michal
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