Re: Rename all derived CONFIG variables

Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 12 Mar 2001 05:37:40 -0600


On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:03:22PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> In 2.4.2-ac18 there are 130 CONFIG options that are always derived from
> other options, the user has no control over them. It is useful for the
> kernel build process to know which variables are derived and which
> variables the user can control. There are also 6 CONFIG options that

Yes, it is. However, I don't see a reason to use a different namespace
for them. At least some of the options below might become non-derived
options again, and having that knowledge spread out over most of the
kernel tree doesn't make any sense to me.
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