On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:59:18PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> --- Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt ---
> - input prompt: "prompt" <prompt> ["if" <expr>]
> Every menu entry can have at most one prompt, which is used to display
> to the user. Optionally dependencies only for this prompt can be added
> with "if".
> ---
>
> This is misleading, since the "if" will not affect only the prompt, but
> also the config option.
>
> 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
>
> to hide this option unless PROMPT_FOR_UNUSED_CORES is selected.
>
> Since the "if" is useless, misleading and redundand with this behaviour, I
> suggest stripping it out.
"if" is valuable in "default y" cases.
cu
Adrian
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