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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:42:29 +0100 (BST)
From: Matthew Kirkwood <matthew@hairy.beasts.org>
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Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Russell King wrote:

> > C: CONFIG_SCSI_BLARG
> > F: drivers/scsi/blarg.c
> > F: drivers/scsi/blarg.h

> And what would:
>
> C: CONFIG_ARM
>
> tell you?  Nothing that is not described in the rest of the "ARM PORT"
> entry.

True, but it would tell it to a script without intervention.

Eric wants an easy way to find the owner of a CONFIG_ entry.
True, the consensus seems to be that this isn't a particularly
useful thing to do, but if it must be done, this seems like an
eminently sane way to do it.

Matthew.

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