Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-10,: New Linux kernel configurator project

# New Linux kernel configurator project

Regis Duchesne (regis@via.ecp.fr)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 00:11:27 +0100 (CET)

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Goals of this project are:

1st round
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Provide a drop-in replacement for make oldconfig/config/menuconfig/xconfig
so that such basic tools can be integrated in all (Linus, Davem, mips)
Linux trees.

The basic idea is that the current implementation is broken: code is
duplicated, and each back-end has its own way to understand the config.in
syntax. Thus, when you modify a config.in file, you are very lucky if all
back-ends keep on working.

That's why we want to unify the parsing of these files, with a C library.

2nd round
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When everybody has switched to the new kernel configurator system, think
about syntax enhancement for config.in and .config files, and about new
back-ends like gtkconfig based on the GTK+ widget set.

Regards,

Regis "HPReg" Duchesne - Engineering Student at ***** ******** *****
www http://www.via.ecp.fr/~regis/
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