Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264247AbUDNPLH (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:11:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264259AbUDNPLH (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:11:07 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:38077 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264247AbUDNPLB (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:11:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:05:05 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Chris Friesen Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, thockin@hockin.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] conditionalize some boring buffer_head checks Message-Id: <20040414080505.319dc14c.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <407D3D46.9010403@nortelnetworks.com> References: <407CEB91.1080503@pobox.com> <20040414005832.083de325.akpm@osdl.org> <20040414010240.0e9f4115.akpm@osdl.org> <407CF201.408@pobox.com> <20040414082716.GA25439@hockin.org> <407CFAD7.4070606@pobox.com> <407D3D46.9010403@nortelnetworks.com> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1458 Lines: 36 On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:31:50 -0400 Chris Friesen wrote: | Jeff Garzik wrote: | > Tim Hockin wrote: | > | >> Somewhat off the original topic, but am I the only one who finds it weird | >> (and error-prone) that you have to add the same KConfig to a dozen or | >> more | >> Kconfig files? | >> | >> Shouldn't there be a KConfig libe, and all you need to do for the arch is | >> reference the CONFIG_FOO from the lib? Would at least save all the | >> duplicate strings and definitions... | | > Seems a lot easier just to gather the common definitions into a Kconfig | > file, and include it via the standard 'source' directive. | | Either way, I personally would be extremely grateful for some kind of | standard way to add a new configurable generic feature to every | architecture. I'm tired of having to add it manually. I hadn't | realized about the "source" feature--seems like we should be able to | pull a lot of stuff into something like that even now. | | On a side note, why is there no Kconfig for the "kernel" directory? Use init/Kconfig for that. -- ~Randy "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo (by Walt Kelly) (Again. Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature) - 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/