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Commit 64b81ed7 authored by Randy Dunlap's avatar Randy Dunlap Committed by Michal Marek
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kconfig-language: add to hints



Explain a little about kconfig symbol dependencies and symbol
existence given optional kconfig language scenarios.
Yes, I was bitten by this.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
parent df835c2e
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@@ -389,3 +389,25 @@ config FOO


limits FOO to module (=m) or disabled (=n).
limits FOO to module (=m) or disabled (=n).


Kconfig symbol existence
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following two methods produce the same kconfig symbol dependencies
but differ greatly in kconfig symbol existence (production) in the
generated config file.

case 1:

config FOO
	tristate "about foo"
	depends on BAR

vs. case 2:

if BAR
config FOO
	tristate "about foo"
endif

In case 1, the symbol FOO will always exist in the config file (given
no other dependencies).  In case 2, the symbol FOO will only exist in
the config file if BAR is enabled.