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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	david-b@pacbell.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: non-choice related config entries within choice
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:44:50 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801190538510.17507@scrub.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080116115233.GA26776@uranus.ravnborg.org>

Hi,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> But one feature I really would like to see is named chocies so we can do stuff like:
> 
> choice X86_PROCESSOR
> 
> config GENERIC_PROCESSOR
> 	bool "A generic X86 processor"
> endchoice
> 
> 
> ...
> 
> choice PPC_PROCESSOR
> 
> config GENERIC_PROCESSOR
> 	bool "A generic PowerPC processor
> 
> endchoice
> 
> The issue here is that we do not today allow the same config option
> to appear if more than one choice.

What I have in mind is slightly different, above choices would simply be 
called PROCESSOR, which would tell kconfig that all choices belong to the 
same group.

bye, Roman

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-19  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-16 11:18 Jan Beulich
2008-01-16 11:52 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-16 13:46   ` Jan Beulich
2008-01-16 13:50     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-01-19  4:44   ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2008-01-19  4:36 ` Roman Zippel

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