On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:40:25AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > Remove from the documentation the notion of using "depends" rather
> > than "depends on" in Kconfig files.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > given that there are only three Kconfig files left that still use
> > "depends" rather than "depends on", there's no point encouraging
> > anyone to still use it (although the parser itself still accepts both
> > "depends" and "requires").
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> > index 536d5bf..658abb5 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
> > @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
> > Optionally, dependencies only for this default value can be added with
> > "if".
> >
> > -- dependencies: "depends on"/"requires" <expr>
> > +- dependencies: "depends on" <expr>
> > This defines a dependency for this menu entry. If multiple
> > dependencies are defined, they are connected with '&&'. Dependencies
> > are applied to all other options within this menu entry (which also
>
> Your patch does something different:
> It's not about "depends", it's about the unused alternative "requires".
>
> Removing "requires" sounds reasonable (even for the implementation, not
> only the documentation), but that's different from what you were
> thinking about.
argh, sorry, brain glitch there. i'll resubmit with the right
wording.
rday
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