Re: State of the new config & build system

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:45:37 -0500


Legacy Fishtank <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>:
> For single-file drivers, I like Becker's (correct credit?) system...
> about 10 lines of metadata is embedded in a C comment, and it includes
> the Config.in and Configure.help info.

I proposed implementing something like this about a year ago (to
replace the nasty centralized knowledge in the MAINTAINERS and CREDITS
files) and was shot down.

I'd be happy to take another swing at this problem once the kbuild-2.5/CML2
transition is done. But I don't think we should let it block us from
having the good results we can get from that change.

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