Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:03:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:03:08 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:20749 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:02:59 -0500 Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system To: esr@thyrsus.com Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:13:00 +0000 (GMT) Cc: garzik@havoc.gtf.org (Legacy Fishtank), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), davej@suse.de (Dave Jones), esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond), marcelo@conectiva.com.br (Marcelo Tosatti), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20011228154537.E17774@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Dec 28, 2001 03:45:37 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I'd be happy to take another swing at this problem once the kbuild-2.5/CML2 > transition is done. But I don't think we should let it block us from > having the good results we can get from that change. It would certainly fit nicely with the existing metadata. We already rip out code comments via kernel-doc, and extending it to rip out - Help text - Web site - Version information - Man page for the driver - Module options etc, shouldn't be too challenging. Ok so kernel-doc is in perl and ugly perl but if someone hates it enough to rewrite it in python thats a win too 8) Alan - 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/