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From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: Rename all derived CONFIG variables 
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Keith Owens wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 03:53:07 -0500,
> "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> >But if we're going to push Linus and the kernel crew to switch to
> >CML2, then why invite the political tsuris of trying to get a large
> >patch into 2.4 now?  Maybe I'm missing something here, but this doesn't
> >seem necessary to me.
>
> The derived config variables should be in a separate name space,
> whether config is CML1 or CML2.  This patch does it for CML1.

I don't think this makes sense at all.  The derivation of the config
values is the concern of the configuration system, not the code.
Consider something like CONFIG_CPU_HAS_FEATURE_FOO that might currently be
derived from CONFIG_CPU_BAR but may in the future be made independent. Or
vice-versa.  Your proposed name-change means additional maintenance
headache and gets you nothing that you couldn't get by simply including
whatever script you wrote to deduce the dependencies. Such a script would
at least be able to tell you what a variable was derived from.

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