[kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] kernel config 3/N - move sound into drivers/media

2002-08-14 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:35:58PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: The big loser here is ARM - it no longer suppresses the sound card question for the appropriate boards. But it's just one question, so I didn't sweat it too much. I'd be tempted to drop that set of tests, and just rely on the

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] kernel config 3/N - move sound into drivers/media

2002-08-14 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 07:49, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Kai Germaschewski] 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. What we need is an

[kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements

2002-08-14 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote: Mutating the language, long-term, so that it looks less like sh and more like a specialised language, is IMO a worthy goal. And I think it can be done. The main thing to deal with is adding an alternative syntax for 'if' statements which

[kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] kernel config 3/N - move sound into drivers/media

2002-08-14 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Greg Banks wrote: @@ -330,6 +329,5 @@ 1 CONFIG_ZORRO -34 forward-dependancy +23 forward-dependancy 11 CONFIG_ISDN_CAPI 11 CONFIG_PROC_FS -11 CONFIG_SOUND_ACI_MIXER 1 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD Could you check that the

[kbuild-devel] Get rid of shell based Config.in parsers?

2002-08-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:22:55AM +1000, Greg Banks wrote: The trouble is actually achieving that in shell-based parsers where shell code cannot tell whether $CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL has been used in a condition. Where comes the requirement that we shall keep the existing shell based config

Re: [kbuild-devel] Get rid of shell based Config.in parsers?

2002-08-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Sam Ravnborg] Where comes the requirement that we shall keep the existing shell based config parsers? I don't make that argument - mconfig is the superior solution by far - but it is certainly the path of least resistance. As pertains to CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL and (EXPERIMENTAL), it *is*

[kbuild-devel] [patch] remove duplicated AGP Config.in

2002-08-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
drivers/char/Config.in still has a complete copy of agp/Config.in. It's an exact cut-n-paste - the md5sums even match. (: --- 2.5.31/drivers/char/Config.in~ 2002-08-08 22:43:28.0 -0500 +++ 2.5.31/drivers/char/Config.in 2002-08-14 17:25:20.0 -0500 @@ -173,21 +173,7 @@

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements

2002-08-14 Thread Greg Banks
Peter Samuelson wrote: [Greg Banks] [...CONFIG_SERIAL and CONFIG_PCMCIA warnings...] Hmmm, either I missed those in your earlier messages, or you didn't post them. Probably I didn't post them. What I posted was a small subset of the full log. + dep_tristate ' I2C bit-banging

[kbuild-devel] RFC: kernel config: new dependency syntax

2002-08-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[I wrote] Mutating the language, long-term, so that it looks less like sh and more like a specialised language, is IMO a worthy goal. And I think it can be done. The main thing to deal with is adding an alternative syntax for 'if' statements which doesn't look like test(1). More about

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements

2002-08-14 Thread Greg Banks
Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote: Mutating the language, long-term, so that it looks less like sh [...] That doesn't solve any of the more fundamental problems. Correct, it doesn't. 1) We still have 3 config parsers, which produce slightly

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements

2002-08-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Greg Banks] + dep_tristate ' I2C bit-banging interfaces' CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT $CONFIG_I2C Are you sure want this one there? I didn't like it either, but it's needed in a couple odd places. What would you suggest - moving the whole i2c menu up? Not all the way up to the new

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements

2002-08-14 Thread Greg Banks
Peter Samuelson wrote: [Greg Banks] +2 CONFIG_KMOD +2 CONFIG_MODULES +2 CONFIG_MODVERSIONS 2 CONFIG_RTC What does that mean? All I did there was to combine two toplevel menus into one. Did this do something bad? Apparently.

Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements

2002-08-14 Thread John Alvord
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:52:48 +1000, Greg Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote: Mutating the language, long-term, so that it looks less like sh [...] That doesn't solve any of the more fundamental problems. Correct, it

Re: [kbuild-devel] RFC: kernel config: new dependency syntax

2002-08-14 Thread Greg Banks
Peter Samuelson wrote: I've come up with syntax I think I'm happy with. It supports most of the current [ ] based if statement semantics, can be implemented in shell, and (most importantly for me) drops those $ signs. This lays the groundwork for stuff like better error checking and auto