Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264472AbTKNVer (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:34:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264482AbTKNVer (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:34:47 -0500 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:3055 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264472AbTKNVeh (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:34:37 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB54A62.6020601@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:34:26 -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: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why no Kconfig in "kernel" subdir? References: <3FB50B4D.1000300@nortelnetworks.com> <20031114092319.5260bd01.rddunlap@osdl.org> 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: 823 Lines: 28 Randy.Dunlap wrote: > I consider PREEMPT and SMP arch-specific, not generic. Interesting. Might I ask why? I thought that most of PREEMPT was pretty arch-neutral. > Will init/Kconfig do what you want? As long as there is some place to put generic options that are applicable to the system as a whole, then I'm happy. 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/