Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:23:19 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: why no Kconfig in "kernel" subdir? |
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:05:17 -0500 Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
| I was adding a new general syscall the other day, and it struck me as | odd that there is no Kconfig in the "kernel" subdirectory. | | A quick search shows 36 separate config options being used in that | subdirectory (stuff like PREEMPT, SMP, FUTEX, HOTPLUG, SYSCTL, etc). | Why is there no Kconfig for it? As it stands, all of these have to be | copied and pasted in every single arch. This seems odd.
In several cases I expect that you are correct. In some cases, general config options are now going into init/Kconfig.
| Would people be open to a series of patches that create a new Kconfig | and start moving generic stuff to it? Or are these things really | arch-specific enough to warrent massive duplication?
I consider PREEMPT and SMP arch-specific, not generic.
Will init/Kconfig do what you want?
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