Re: CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT always set

Philip Blundell (Philip.Blundell@pobox.com)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 23:24:56 +0000

>philip> The way dep_tristate _ought_ to work is that you can give it a list
>philip> of options to depend on. If the list evaluates to all `y' then the
>philip> depending option can be a full tristate - y/m/n.
>
>config/oldconfig does this. menuconfig doesn't do it, and I believe
>xconfig doesn't do it, either.

I know that I implemented it for config, and I thought someone (probably
William Roadcap) had implemented it for menuconfig as well. I think xconfig
does indeed have rather more limited semantics at the moment but that's not
disaster.

p.