Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Feb 2002 06:40:17 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: linux kernel config converter |
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Roman Zippel wrote: > At http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lkcc.tar.gz there is a small program which > converts the config files into an alternative format. The tool expects a [...] > The current output looks like this: > > config: ULTRIX_PARTITION > define_bool > default: y > dep: ((!PARTITION_ADVANCED?) && DECSTATION=y) > bool > prompt: Ultrix partition table support > dep: PARTITION_ADVANCED? > help: > Say Y here if you would like to be able to read the hard disk > partition table format used by DEC (now Compaq) Ultrix machines. > Otherwise, say N. [...] > What am I missing now, that we can't convert the current configs into > something like above and add new features later to it?
Interesting...
FWIW a much better transition path is very close to what your tool does, and is a suggestion made by mec (kbuild maintainer) near the end of the recent flamewar: convert config.in files one at a time, like we did the old makefiles.
That would imply a rewrite of make [old]config, and an updating of make menu|xconfig, to handle the new format...
As it happened with the conversion to new-style Makefiles, Linus may say "bah" when the conversion 80% there, and remove support for the old config format completely. :)
Jeff
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