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Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 18:05:57 -0500
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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        Legacy Fishtank <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>, Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112281417410.23445-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:27:37PM -0800
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:27:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and it's readable and probably trivially parseable into both the existing
> format (ie some "find . -name '*.conf'" plus sed-scripts) and into cml2 or
> whatever.

It's even doable within the .c file (and preferable for small drivers).  
Something like:

	/* mydriver.c .... header blah blah */
	config_requires(CONFIG_INET);
	config_option(CONFIG_MY_FAST_CHIP, "Help info for this");

which gets picked out of the .c files during depend phase, and nullified 
during compile by means of -Iconfig_system.h would even let us get rid of 
Makefiles for drivers.  Wouldn't being able to just drop a .c file (or a 
bunch of .c files) into the tree in the right place be great?  Eliminating 
makefiles means eliminating more conflicts, which might mean more time to 
respond to other issues...

		-ben
-- 
Fish.
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