Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2001 19:59:14 -0500 | From | Legacy Fishtank <> | Subject | Re: State of the new config & build system |
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 06:05:57PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 02:27:37PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > and it's readable and probably trivially parseable into both the existing > > format (ie some "find . -name '*.conf'" plus sed-scripts) and into cml2 or > > whatever. > > It's even doable within the .c file (and preferable for small drivers). > Something like: > > /* mydriver.c .... header blah blah */ > config_requires(CONFIG_INET); > config_option(CONFIG_MY_FAST_CHIP, "Help info for this");
If Linus is willing to buy into "driver.conf" there is no need to stuff things into the source. [my previous post made the mistaken assumption that Linus would not like an additional metadata file like driver.conf]
A per-driver metadata file is IMHO clearly the preferred solution.
Jeff
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