Re: Cleaner way to conditionally disallow a CONFIG option as static

[Sridhar Samudrala <sri@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Roman Zippel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
>
> > In 2.6, net/sctp/Kconfig
> >
> > config IPV6_SCTP__
> >     tristate
> >     default y if IPV6=n
> >     default IPV6 if IPV6
> >
> > config IP_SCTP
> >     tristate "The SCTP Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> >     depends on IPV6_SCTP__
>
> This can be written as:
>
> config IP_SCTP
>       tristate "The SCTP Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)"
>       depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n
>

Thanks. Your 2.6 solution helped me come up with the following solution for
2.4 too and avoid the hack.

if [ "$CONFIG_IPV6" = "n" ]; then
  tristate '  The SCTP Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_IP_SCTP
else
  dep_tristate '  The SCTP Protocol (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_IP_SCTP $CONFIG_IPV6
fi

Thanks
-Sridhar