Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264553AbTKNRIX (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:08:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264532AbTKNRGJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:06:09 -0500 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:8638 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262784AbTKNRFY (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:05:24 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB50B4D.1000300@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:05:17 -0500 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: why no Kconfig in "kernel" subdir? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1086 Lines: 26 I was adding a new general syscall the other day, and it struck me as odd that there is no Kconfig in the "kernel" subdirectory. A quick search shows 36 separate config options being used in that subdirectory (stuff like PREEMPT, SMP, FUTEX, HOTPLUG, SYSCTL, etc). Why is there no Kconfig for it? As it stands, all of these have to be copied and pasted in every single arch. This seems odd. Would people be open to a series of patches that create a new Kconfig and start moving generic stuff to it? Or are these things really arch-specific enough to warrent massive duplication? Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/