Re: [PATCH] Use menuconfig objects - Fusion

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jul 21 2007 15:05, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> +menuconfig FUSION
>...
>> +if FUSION
>>
>>  config FUSION_SPI
>...
>> +endif # FUSION
>
>  i just *know* i'm going to regret asking this, but is there a
>compelling reason why the internal contents of a "menuconfig FUBAR"
>needs to still be surrounded by a "if FUBAR" condition?

Note that if/endif actually translates to a "depends on" for every
contained object. I prefer the reduced clutter [if/endif] over having
explicit depends on on every object, since it is redundant.

>wouldn't it
>be philosophically cleaner if the internals of a menuconfig structure
>*automatically* depended on selection of the menuconfig and the "if"
>part was implicit?

"menuconfig" is not a start marker like "menu" was. Hence it has no "stop"
marker either. We would need a new object type for that.

>  and having said that, i realize that there are menuconfig examples
>for which the above is not strictly true, but i can't remember where
>i've seen them.  all i remember about them is that they we're a bit
>confusing.


	Jan
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