[kbuild-devel] why does "Enable the block layer" seem to be selected?

2006-11-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm playing with the latest "git pull" of the kernel, and i'm a bit confused about how some of the choices are selected when doing "make menuconfig". (it may be that i just misunderstand some of the content of kconfig-language.txt, so feel free to point out how i'm clueless here.) as a lead-

[kbuild-devel] kconfig: "depends on" versus "depends" versus "requires"

2006-11-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i note that the current incarnation of kbuild is amazingly forgiving in terms of defining dependencies -- any one of "depends on" or "depends" or "requires" is acceptable based on scripts/kconfig/zconf.y: ... depends: T_DEPENDS T_ON expr T_EOL { menu_add_dep($3); printd(DEBUG_PA

[kbuild-devel] is there a reason to allow a redefinition of "prompt"?

2006-11-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i notice that it's legal (but a warning) to redefine the "prompt" attribute for a config entry. what's the rationale behind allowing a redefinition? just curious. rday - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support