Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Oct 2002 16:41:58 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: linux kernel conf 0.8 |
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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > But there is a good reason why they do it. > Take a look at dirvers/video/Config.in for example. > See the size of the big if's. They span several pages if not the whole file. > Why they do this is simple. Only check for PCI once, and group all > PCI stuff there. > With the syntax Roman propose we see instead that _each_ config option > check for PCI. Which is good IMHO.
That falls apart for multiple-bus drivers.
The way the current config files handle this seems reasonable... for example drivers/net/ in fact _already_ splits things up by bus type to some extent. But this is not a hard and fast rule, just easing some pain.
> But the whole argumentation boils down to something rahter simple: > 1) Shall we group configuration files together > 2) Shall we group related files together
This reminds me of another point:
An eventual goal is for people, mostly initial driver merges or vendors, to be able to add a simple driver without patching _any_ files.
Which implies that the equivalent of "source drivers/net/Config*" (wildcarding) in Roman's system would be useful. Or maybe "source drivers/net" and it knows that when given a directory it should scan for all Config* files in that dir.
Jeff
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