Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_* In Comments Considered Harmful

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 09:31:39 EST


On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:19:52 BST, Dave Jones said:

> Maybe it should be taught to parse comments? There are zillions of
> #endif /* CONFIG_FOO */
> braces in the tree. Why is this one special ?

I think it's because it looked like:

#ifdef CONFIG_FOO
....
#endif /* CONFIG_FOO or CONFIG_BAR */

and it concluded there was a dependency on BAR.

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