Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA"

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > This is less a problem, as here it's clear that you want a boolean result,
> > > but something like "FOO=n" is really a string compare and FOO could be of
> > > any type (that 99% of all symbols are boolean/tristate symbols doesn't
> > > really help).
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better to require a string or hex to always be quoted
> > like "somestring"?
>
> What about normal numbers? I don't think requiring quotes everywhere for
> this is a good idea.

And numbers (both decimal and hex) can easily be distinguished from y, n, and m
anyway.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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