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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 09/11] backports: use Kconfig for backport version information
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:13:05AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 00:43 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
> >
> > Instead of relying on Makefile hacks just use Kconfig for
> > defining the variables needed. We can do this since these
> > variables are all known at packaging time. The exception
> > is BACKPORTS_GIT_TRACKED, but for that we can define a
> > kconfig variable which only if set will we rely on the
> > environment for picking it up and later exporting it through
> > Kconfig. Since Kconfig doesn't keep config variables defined
> > with option env we use a secondary config entry for that.
>
> I'd prefer you didn't do this. When we track the backports in a git tree
> this will mean constant changes to these files, where currently the
> changes are constrained to just the "versions" file.

OK.

Luis


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