From: Adrian Bunk Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:22:02 +0000 Subject: Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA" Message-Id: <20040815232201.GT1387@fs.tum.de> List-Id: References: <20040807172518.GA25169@fs.tum.de> <200408072013.01168.arnd@arndb.de> <20040811201725.GJ26174@fs.tum.de> <20040811214032.GC7207@mars.ravnborg.org> <20040812001003.GV26174@fs.tum.de> <20040814204711.GD1387@fs.tum.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Roman Zippel Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Arnd Bergmann , Christoph Hellwig , wli@holomorphy.com, "David S. Miller" , schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, linux390@de.ibm.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Linux/m68k , Linux Kernel Development , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:01:35AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, Hi Roman, > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > What about normal numbers? I don't think requiring quotes everywhere for > > > this is a good idea. > > > > And numbers (both decimal and hex) can easily be distinguished from y, n, and m > > anyway. > > I did consider this at some point, but I didn't want to add further > special cases. Every symbol has a tristate and a string value and so you > can compare pretty much everything with everything else. Splitting the > string value further into other types isn't worth the trouble. The problem > at hand is easy enough to solve by adding a type declaration. if things stay as they are, we _really_ need warnings for !=n and rewrite the correct ones to (FOO=y || FOO=m). > bye, Roman cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed