Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:14:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:14:48 -0400 Received: from zok.SGI.COM ([204.94.215.101]:40664 "EHLO zok.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:14:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3D59B022.BA63F063@alphalink.com.au> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:19:30 +1000 From: Greg Banks Organization: Corpus Canem Pty Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.15-4mdkfb i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kai Germaschewski CC: Peter Samuelson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1544 Lines: 39 Kai Germaschewski wrote: > > > > So you agree a bit of spring cleaning wouldn't hurt, right? ;) > > > > Absolutely, and I have a catalogue of dust puppies to help that process ;-) > > Okay. Let me first state that I do not really have the time to get > involved currently. ISDN4Linux and other pending kbuild stuff already > takes somewhat more than the remaining free time I have. But if you guys > want to get going with some step by step cleaning (w/o breaking too much), > I can try to help reviewing and submitting to Linus. Great. > Basically, extend the "source" command to do a grep CONFIG_* in the file > to be read and set all found symbols to "n", if unset - only then do > the actual "source". Ah, interesting idea. > Anyway, some more points: > > o a) dep_bool ' Blah' CONFIG_FOO $CONFIG_BAR vs. > b) dep_bool ' Blah' CONFIG_FOO CONFIG_BAR I assume you include in a) the change which gives all symbols an "n" default. Then b) is clearly the evolutionary approach and less likely to result in a partially broken config system come Halloween. Greg. -- the price of civilisation today is a courageous willingness to prevail, with force, if necessary, against whatever vicious and uncomprehending enemies try to strike it down. - Roger Sandall, The Age, 28Sep2001. - 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/