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SubjectRe: why no Kconfig in "kernel" subdir?
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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