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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 02:43:42 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML1 cleanup patch
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Keith Owens wrote:
> That just leaves the 17 names of the form CONFIG_[0-9]*.  Only the 8139
> is likely to affect outside the kernel and the argument that renaming
> config options might affect external packages does not hold.  The
> recent aic7xxx change broke pcmcia on 2.2 kernels but we can work round
> it.

There is no good reason to restrict the CML2 identifier namespace.

This is a policy change not a cleanup.

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