Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:22:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:22:23 -0500 Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.137]:58636 "EHLO smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:22:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:21:59 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel To: Jeff Garzik cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux kernel config converter In-Reply-To: <3C74DCA1.B1DA0C30@mandrakesoft.com> Message-ID: 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 Hi, On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Jeff Garzik wrote: > FWIW a much better transition path is very close to what your tool does, > and is a suggestion made by mec (kbuild maintainer) near the end of the > recent flamewar: convert config.in files one at a time, like we did the > old makefiles. That's possible, as soon as the menu information is added, both formats contain the same information, so a program with two parsers can handle both simultaneously. > That would imply a rewrite of make [old]config, and an updating of make > menu|xconfig, to handle the new format... I think we should just dump the old tools and implement a single config library, which exports an interface to access the config information. bye, Roman - 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/