Kai Germaschewski wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > I think that's exactly where this effort should start. For example, the > SCSI patch didn't do this, though AFAICS it would be nicely possible to > unconditionally source drivers/scsi/Config.in and then have the if in > there.
I like that idea. > this should also be a nice opportunity to introduce drivers/Config.in and > remove even more duplication from arch/$ARCH/config.in. It comes of the > cost of testing for the architecture, since e.g. s390 does not want to > include most of drivers/*, but that means we'd actually collect this > knowledge at a centralized place. <gentle-irony>Oh no the dreaded unified arch tree!</gentle-irony> Seriously, I think this is perhaps a bit brave in the short term. > o The trivial patches moving statements like the above into the > subsys/Config.in means that all of that file should be indented, which > makes the patches look really large, even though they change very > little. I wouldn't be too worried about indentation, it's quite loosely followed already. In fact better to do one patch that does the move and a second larger but provably-trivial patch that fixes up the indentation. > I have no strong opinion either way, but I'd certainly like > a drivers/Config.in. I think it's a great idea whose time has not yet come. Greg. -- the price of civilisation today is a courageous willingness to prevail, with force, if necessary, against whatever vicious and uncomprehending enemies try to strike it down. - Roger Sandall, The Age, 28Sep2001. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
