Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Aug 2004 02:18:48 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA" |
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:45:21PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Roman,
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Roman, is it intentional that PCMCIA!=n is true if there's no PCMCIA > > option, or is it simply a bug? > > Yes, undefined symbols have a (string) value of "" . Maybe it's time to > add a warning for such comparisons...
is there any strong reason why undefined symbols aren't equivalent to symbols with a value of "n"?
Many !=n seems to be bogus (especially ones from the automatic transition to the new Kconfig) and I'll audit them. But rewriting valid FOO!=n to (FOO=y || FOO=m) doesn't sound like an improvement.
> bye, Roman
cu Adrian
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