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

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Hi,

On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote:

> 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.

It's not bogus but simplified, look at the xconfig debug info for a more 
correct representation of the internal data.

bye, Roman
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