Re: linux kernel config converter

Giacomo Catenazzi (cate@debian.org)
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:06:59 +0100


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).
>
> 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.

with kbuild-2.5 this can be done easy. We should maintain
the syntax of kbuild-2.5 (or a subset).

But the makefile/makefile.in will remain: not all code
in kernel is drivers, and for the non drivers makefile/config.in
IMHO it is better to have 'central' (per directory/per type)
config and makefile files.


giacomo

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