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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] conditionalize some boring buffer_head checks
    On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:31:50 -0400 Chris Friesen wrote:

    | Jeff Garzik wrote:
    | > Tim Hockin wrote:
    | >
    | >> Somewhat off the original topic, but am I the only one who finds it weird
    | >> (and error-prone) that you have to add the same KConfig to a dozen or
    | >> more
    | >> Kconfig files?
    | >>
    | >> Shouldn't there be a KConfig libe, and all you need to do for the arch is
    | >> reference the CONFIG_FOO from the lib? Would at least save all the
    | >> duplicate strings and definitions...
    |
    | > Seems a lot easier just to gather the common definitions into a Kconfig
    | > file, and include it via the standard 'source' directive.
    |
    | Either way, I personally would be extremely grateful for some kind of
    | standard way to add a new configurable generic feature to every
    | architecture. I'm tired of having to add it manually. I hadn't
    | realized about the "source" feature--seems like we should be able to
    | pull a lot of stuff into something like that even now.
    |
    | On a side note, why is there no Kconfig for the "kernel" directory?

    Use init/Kconfig for that.

    --
    ~Randy
    "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo (by Walt Kelly)
    (Again. Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)
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