can someone explain this CONFIG_COMMANDS, CFG_CMD thing?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  i'm looking at some of the stuff sascha commented on earlier, like:

$ grep -r CONFIG_MII drivers
drivers/net/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_MIIPHY)			+= miiphy.o
drivers/net/at91_ether.c:#if defined(CONFIG_MII) || (CONFIG_COMMANDS & CFG_CMD_MII)
drivers/net/at91_ether.c:#endif	/* defined(CONFIG_MII) || (CONFIG_COMMANDS & CFG_CMD_MII) */
drivers/net/at91_ether.c:#if defined(CONFIG_MII) || (CONFIG_COMMANDS & CFG_CMD_MII)
$

and i'd like to clarify what any of that is *supposed* to mean.

  first, what means "CONFIG_COMMANDS"?  that is, in the sense that
you're *bitwise* or'ing it with something else?  is that supposed to
be a test that a command has been selected for inclusion?  surely
there's a cleaner way to do that.

  and what would the difference be between CONFIG_MII and CFG_CMD_MII?
as i read it (and i could be totally out to lunch), something like
CONFIG_MII would be selecting a particular *feature* to build in,
while CFG_CMD_MII would be selecting the actual "mii" command, is that
it?

  but should those two selections be independently selectable?
possibly -- i can imagine an argument that that should be true.  but
in a perfect world, how should all this be done?  personally, i can
imagine selecting *features* one by one and, for each feature,
selecting any of the relevant and associated commands.

  so (as a random example), i might first select MII support with
CONFIG_MII, then separately select to include the "mii" command with
CONFIG_CMD_MII.  and commands should be Kconfig dependent on their
associated feature, so that there would be no need to test

 #if defined(CONFIG_MII) && defined(CONFIG_CMD_MII)

it would be sufficient to test

 #if defined(CONFIG_CMD_MII)

or am i completely misreading what should be happening here?

rday
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