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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:53:30 -0700
From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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On Feb 21, 2002  08:21 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Erik Andersen wrote:
> > I like this.  It's simple, its clean, and it keeps all the
> > information in one spot.  I think we can go a bit farther here
> > and add in a list of the .c files that enabling this feature
> > should add to the Makefile (per the current
> >     obj-$(CONFIG_FOO)            += foo.o
> > stuff in the current Makefile).
> 
> Hey, you're skipping ahead to the cool chapters!
> 
> Seriously, yep, that's exactly where we eventually want to be:  all
> config, makefile, and help text info in one place.  To add a new net
> driver, I want to be able to simply add two files, driver.c and
> driver.conf, and be done with it.

...and have the Makefile/config tool slurp up "*.conf" from each directory
so you don't need to patch anything to add a new driver/fs/whatever that
doesn't patch external files...

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/

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