Re: Cleaner way to conditionally disallow a CONFIG option as static

From: Sridhar Samudrala
Date: Wed Mar 10 2004 - 13:22:05 EST


On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Roman Zippel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>
> > In 2.6, net/sctp/Kconfig
> >
> > config IPV6_SCTP__
> > tristate
> > default y if IPV6=n
> > default IPV6 if IPV6
> >
> > config IP_SCTP
> > tristate "The SCTP Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> > depends on IPV6_SCTP__
>
> This can be written as:
>
> config IP_SCTP
> tristate "The SCTP Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
>

Thanks. Your 2.6 solution helped me come up with the following solution for
2.4 too and avoid the hack.

if [ "$CONFIG_IPV6" = "n" ]; then
tristate ' The SCTP Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_IP_SCTP
else
dep_tristate ' The SCTP Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_IP_SCTP $CONFIG_IPV6
fi

Thanks
-Sridhar
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