Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Aug 2002 11:19:30 +1000 | From | Greg Banks <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements |
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Kai Germaschewski wrote: > > > > So you agree a bit of spring cleaning wouldn't hurt, right? ;) > > > > Absolutely, and I have a catalogue of dust puppies to help that process ;-) > > Okay. Let me first state that I do not really have the time to get > involved currently. ISDN4Linux and other pending kbuild stuff already > takes somewhat more than the remaining free time I have. But if you guys > want to get going with some step by step cleaning (w/o breaking too much), > I can try to help reviewing and submitting to Linus.
Great.
> Basically, extend the "source" command to do a grep CONFIG_* in the file > to be read and set all found symbols to "n", if unset - only then do > the actual "source".
Ah, interesting idea.
> Anyway, some more points: > > o a) dep_bool ' Blah' CONFIG_FOO $CONFIG_BAR vs. > b) dep_bool ' Blah' CONFIG_FOO CONFIG_BAR
I assume you include in a) the change which gives all symbols an "n" default. Then b) is clearly the evolutionary approach and less likely to result in a partially broken config system come Halloween.
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