Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:29:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:29:55 -0400 Received: from smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl ([194.109.127.141]:45328 "EHLO smtpzilla5.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 05:29:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 11:32:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@serv To: Greg Banks cc: Kai Germaschewski , Peter Samuelson , , Subject: Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements In-Reply-To: <3D587DFC.76F2C778@alphalink.com.au> 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 Content-Length: 1081 Lines: 27 Hi, On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Greg Banks wrote: > > This doesn't has be > > very painful, I have a tool that can convert most of the current config > > into whatever you want. > > The problem is deciding what the original rules were supposed to mean, and > then reproducing that behaviour exactly in the new language. The alternative > is fixing the problems as we convert, but then we end up with CML2 and the > "there's no way to verify the rulebase is the same" argument. My only requirement is that the resulting rulebase is usable and roughly the same, some small bugs are IMO acceptable. CML2 has more problems than this. It's a very flexible but also very complex language, which makes it hard to use. It was also not very wise to create a complete new and different rulebase, which made it very hard to compare both. 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/