(dropped Hung-Te off the list somehow...)

On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:49 PM Julius Werner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Sounds like a good plan. Please keep Documentation in sync:
> > > Documentation/core/Kconfig.md seems to cover the implementation details.
>
> Uhh... where did you find that one? I don't see it in my tree anywhere...
>
> > Will it be more explicit if we call it HAS_CONFIG(XXX) ? Or HAS_KCONFIG(XXX)
> > CONFIG(XXX) seems too generic to me that some drivers may wan to use it for 
> > wrapping a reference to config tables, like GPIO(XXX).
>
> Hmm... I would really like to keep it as short as possible, and that's
> another 4 chars. Also, I feel HAS_CONFIG may be a bit confusing (e.g.
> may sound more like whether the config is used at all in a particular
> board/SoC/arch, rather than whether it is enabled). I guess we could
> go with KCONFIG(XXX) if you prefer, but I kinda liked the symmetry
> between CONFIG_XXX and CONFIG(XXX).
>
> I would say that the rules for the global namespace are first come,
> first pick. There are currently no macros named CONFIG() in the tree,
> and after this is introduced, nobody can add another one (since
> kconfig.h is force-included in every file and would lead to a
> duplicate definition). Of course normally we want to avoid names that
> are too generic in the global namespace, but for something as
> ubiquitous and useful as this I think we can make an exception
> (because I doubt any other use case could have a better justification
> for claiming this name).
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