On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 23:10 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > And in your example BAR is bool, right? Does the above get more
> > complicated if BAR would be tristate?
>
> If BAR=m then implying BAZ from FOO=y will force BAZ to y or n,
> bypassing the
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 23:10 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > What happens when a tristate symbol is implied by a symbol set to 'y'
> > > and by a symbol set to 'm'?
> >
> > That's respectively the third and
On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 23:10 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > What happens when a tristate symbol is implied by a symbol set to 'y'
> > and by a symbol set to 'm'?
>
> That's respectively the third and second rows in the table above.
I meant: two separate
On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 23:10 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > You probably got "["if" ]" for free by copying what's there for
> > select. But this series doesn't use it, so perhaps it would be better
> > to not document it yet. But that is rather sneaky.
On Fri, 28 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 22:28 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > The "imply" keyword is a weak version of "select" where the target
> > config symbol can still be turned off, avoiding those pitfalls that come
> > with the "select" keyword.
> >
> > This is
On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 22:28 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> The "imply" keyword is a weak version of "select" where the target
> config symbol can still be turned off, avoiding those pitfalls that come
> with the "select" keyword.
>
> This is useful e.g. with multiple drivers that want to indicate
On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 22:28 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > SUBSYSTEM_X can still be configured out, and it can be set as a
> > module when none of the drivers are selected or all of them are also
> > modular.
>
> Short note, to highlight a pet peeve:
On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 22:28 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> SUBSYSTEM_X can still be configured out, and it can be set as a
> module when none of the drivers are selected or all of them are also
> modular.
Short note, to highlight a pet peeve: "select" (and therefor
"selected") has a special
The "imply" keyword is a weak version of "select" where the target
config symbol can still be turned off, avoiding those pitfalls that come
with the "select" keyword.
This is useful e.g. with multiple drivers that want to indicate their
ability to hook into a given subsystem while still being
