linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig.h: remove config

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1610200920140.25105@knanqh.ubzr>
Date:   Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:25:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To:     Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig.h: remove config_enabled() macro

On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:

> [Added Nicolas.]
> 
> On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 21:06 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > 2016-10-20 19:04 GMT+09:00 Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>:
> > > Is there a reason to keep using the double underscore prefix?
> > 
> > I followed the suggestion in the following message:
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/6/944
> 
> Nicolas: was there any specific reason to suggest __is_defined() and
> not, say, is_defined()?

Not really, except maybe to keep more distance from the defined() 
preprocessor macro. But I don't have a strong opinion either ways.


Nicolas