Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267806AbUIJTMk (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:12:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267804AbUIJTMk (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:12:40 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:12504 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267806AbUIJTMW (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:12:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:11:37 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it cc: Andrew Morton , Jeff Dike , Linux Kernel Development , User-mode Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [patch 1/1] Refer to CONFIG_USERMODE, not to CONFIG_UM In-Reply-To: <20040910170859.24ABDC74B@zion.localdomain> Message-ID: References: <20040910170859.24ABDC74B@zion.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1310 Lines: 31 On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it wrote: > We should also figure out how to make the config process work better for UML. > We would like to make UML able to "source drivers/Kconfig" and have the right > drivers selectable (i.e. LVM, ramdisk, and so on) and the ones for actual > hardware excluded. I've been reading such a request even from Jeff Dike at the > last Kernel Summit, (in the lwn.net coverage) but without any followup. Yes, I agree 100%! Drivers for `modern' hardware (e.g. PCI, USB), shouldn't be a problem, since they have good dependencies. `legacy' hardware is more of a problem. Since the consensus was that CONFIG_ISA is meant to indicate ISA slots, perhaps we need something like CONFIG_XBUS to mark all these legacy drivers? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - 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/