Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new kconfig goodies | From | Miles Bader <> | Date | 13 May 2003 10:44:01 +0900 |
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Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> writes: > BTW this clears my todo list of important features for the kconfig syntax > itself, if you think there is something missing, please tell me now, > otherwise it might have to wait for 2.7.
Hi, I sent the following about kconfig a while ago, but never got an answer; do you have any comment on it?
Here's the message:
> I have the following two entries in my Kconfig file (arch/v850/Kconfig): > > config RTE_CB_MULTI > bool > # RTE_CB_NB85E can either have multi ROM support or not, but > # other platforms (currently only RTE_CB_MA1) require it. > prompt "Multi monitor ROM support" if RTE_CB_NB85E > depends RTE_CB > default y > > config RTE_CB_MULTI_DBTRAP > bool "Pass illegal insn trap / dbtrap to kernel" > depends RTE_CB_MULTI > default n > > What I expect this to do is to only ask the first question (RTE_CB_MULTI) > if RTE_CB_NB85E is true and otherwise just assume true -- this part > seems to work correctly -- but to _always_ ask the second question > (RTE_CB_MULTI_DBTRAP) as long as its dependencies are true. > > However, what happens in practice is that the second question is only > displayed if the first question is displayed (the resulting actual value > of RTE_CB_MULTI_DBTRAP is whatever value it had before I entered the > menuconfig). > > So... is this a bug? If not, is there some other way I can have a > question [a] depend on another question [b], where [b] is optional > (defaulting to y), but [a] is not?
[I haven't tested this recently, so I suppose it could have silently been fixed.]
Thanks,
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