Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2001 02:20:31 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: CML1 cleanup patch |
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"Eric S. Raymond" wrote: > Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>: > > FWIW I am opposed to any large-scale cleanup of the configuration > > language and/or identifiers in -any- 2.4.x series kernel. > > This is tweaking 39 symbols out of 1831, hardly large-scale. These > irregularities in the namespace cause trouble out of all proportion to > their size, is my problem. If you knew what I've been through trying > to write analysis tools...*shudder*...
They cause trouble for you, solely, at the moment. Changing the CML1 namespace potentially causes trouble for many people.
> > Not only C code but installer utilities are affected by changes in the > > CONFIG_xxx identifiers. If we change that namespace, we are changing > > part of the API that is exported to drivers. Definitely not 2.4.x > > stuff. > > My patch fixes those installer utilities. All three of them. And no driver > code is or possibly could be broken by it, that's a red herring. *No > object code will change as a result of this patch*.
You updated Linux-Mandrake's kernel RPM and Linux-Mandrake's installer? Cool!
> I want this in before the 2.5 fork for several reasons: > > (1) 19 of the 39 changes fix things that are outright bugs even in CML1. > These should not be allowed to persist in the stable branch.
Please post a patch with only these 19 changes, and make sure to CC it to linux-kernel.
Thanks,
Jeff
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