Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Jul 2005 00:17:56 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Documentation mismatch in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt |
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On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:59:18PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > --- Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt --- > - input prompt: "prompt" <prompt> ["if" <expr>] > Every menu entry can have at most one prompt, which is used to display > to the user. Optionally dependencies only for this prompt can be added > with "if". > --- > > This is misleading, since the "if" will not affect only the prompt, but > also the config option. > > Therefore I can't use > config SGI_IOC4 > tristate > prompt "SGI IOC4 Base IO support" if PROMPT_FOR_UNUSED_CORES > depends on (IA64_GENERIC || IA64_SGI_SN2) && MMTIMER > default n > > to hide this option unless PROMPT_FOR_UNUSED_CORES is selected. > > Since the "if" is useless, misleading and redundand with this behaviour, I > suggest stripping it out.
"if" is valuable in "default y" cases.
cu Adrian
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