From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935423AbWKZPTz (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:19:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935425AbWKZPTz (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:19:55 -0500 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:3794 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935423AbWKZPTz (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:19:55 -0500 X-Originating-Ip: 72.57.81.197 Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:16:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: more pedantry: "depends on" versus "depends" versus "requires" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org i'm thinking that the kconfig structure doesn't really need to support all three of these dependency directives for Kconfig files. a quick occurrence count: "depends on": 4421 "depends": 45 "requires": 0 under the circumstances, why not just standardize on "depends on" everywhere and remove the obvious redundancy from the scripts/kconfig/ parser files? rday