Re: Documentation mismatch in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

From: Bodo Eggert
Date: Sat Jul 09 2005 - 02:39:22 EST


On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:59:18PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:

...
> > Therefore I can't use
> > config SGI_IOC4
> > tristate
> > prompt "SGI IOC4 Base IO support" if PROMPT_FOR_UNUSED_CORES
> > depends on (IA64_GENERIC || IA64_SGI_SN2) && MMTIMER
> > default n
...
> > Since the "if" is useless, misleading and redundand with this behaviour, I
> > suggest stripping it out.
>
> "if" is valuable in "default y" cases.

It should be, but either it's really applied to the config instead of the
prompt (in which can also be added to the depends on list) or the
menuconfig '/' function has bogus output.

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