Messages in this thread | | | From | Jani Nikula <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/6] Regressions for "imply" behavior change | Date | Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:17:32 +0300 |
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On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 5:25 AM Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com> wrote: >> BTW how about adding a new Kconfig option to hide the details of >> ( BAR || !BAR) ? as Jason already explained and suggested, this will >> make it easier for the users and developers to understand the actual >> meaning behind this tristate weird condition. >> >> e.g have a new keyword: >> reach VXLAN >> which will be equivalent to: >> depends on VXLAN && !VXLAN > > I'd love to see that, but I'm not sure what keyword is best. For your > suggestion of "reach", that would probably do the job, but I'm not > sure if this ends up being more or less confusing than what we have > today.
Ah, perfect bikeshedding topic!
Perhaps "uses"? If the dependency is enabled it gets used as a dependency.
Of course, this is all just talk until someone(tm) posts a patch actually making the change. I've looked at the kconfig tool sources before; not going to make the same mistake again.
BR, Jani.
-- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
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