linux-kernel - [RFC] add "enable" to the kconfig language

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Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:14:14 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC] add "enable" to the kconfig language

Hi all,

I have noticed that we use the following paradigm quite a bit theses days:

config <something
	select HAVE_<config1>

config <config1>
	depends on HAVE_<config1>

or similar

I was wondering if it would make sense to replace this with:

config <something
	enable <config1>

config <config1>
	depends on enabled

The advantage of this is that we would not have all the HAVE_ config
names in our .config files and the generated include files.  Of course,
if config1 does not depend on "enabled", then the "enable <config1>"
would have no effect (we may want to warn about this).

Comments?
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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