Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>:
> I think it should be possible to do:
>
> /* to enable the special stuff, change the "undef" to "define",
> If you really want you can add this to Config.in so that you're presented
> with this choice when configuring your kernel. But it's not neccesary
> for the general public to always see this toggle. */
> #undef CONFIG_SX_SPECIALSTUFF
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SX_SPECIALSTUFF
> ...
>
> #endif
Yes, I could write and test code to handle this in about twenty minutes.
And I was about to do it when I realized that it would be the wrong thing.
The right answer is that CONFIG_SX_SPECIALSTUFF *should* be flagged as
an error -- because it doesn't belong in the CONFIG_ namespace, which
by definition should be reserved for things the configurators control.
It should be called something else: perhaps ENABLE_SX_SPECIALSTUFF
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