linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xconfig: Display dependency values in debug

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Message-ID: <502BDC62.4090408@xenotime.net>
Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:29:06 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Salar Ali Mumtaz <salaarali@...il.com>
CC:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xconfig: Display dependency values in debug_info

On 08/15/2012 09:32 AM, Salar Ali Mumtaz wrote:

> On 12-08-10 08:39 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On 08/09/2012 11:54 AM, Salar Ali Mumtaz wrote:
>>
>>> On 12-08-07 12:55 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>
>>>> In Kconfig language, is "" the same as 'n' ?
>>>> If so, I'm OK with your proposal above.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So a colleague of mine tested this and came up with a conclusion that expressions in Kconfig can only deal with boolean or tristate operands and no casting is made with strings. Using any string operand as part of a boolean expression is simply a type error and Kconfig probably marks such operand as 'n', regardless of its value.
>>>
>>
>>
>> My question was about FRV, which is a boolean,
>> but still did not display as 'n' in your example.
>>
>>
> 
> FRV is not a boolean.



Hm, why do you say that?  Please explain.


from arch/frv/Kconfig:

config FRV
	bool
	default y



-- 
~Randy
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