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On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:02:01AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Something I also asked for the config system at least a year ago was to > have Configure.help split up. Never happened. It's still one large ugly > file. Driver or architecture maintainers still can't just change _their_ > small fragment, they have to touch a global file that they don't "own". > > So if somebody really wants to help this, make scripts that generate > config files AND Configure.help files from a distributed set. And once you > do that, you could even imagine creating the old-style config files > (without the automatic checking and losing some information) from the > information. 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. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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