Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:23:19 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why no Kconfig in "kernel" subdir?
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:05:17 -0500 Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:

| 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.

In several cases I expect that you are correct.
In some cases, general config options are now going into init/Kconfig.

| 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?

I consider PREEMPT and SMP arch-specific, not generic.

Will init/Kconfig do what you want?

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~Randy
MOTD:  Always include version info.
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