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SubjectRe: [Question] Why CONFIG_SHELL
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 02:04:12PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi experts.
>
> I think all the macros with CONFIG_ prefix are supposed to be
> defined in Kconfig.
> But I've been long wondering why there exists one exception:
> CONFIG_SHELL.
>
> Is there any historical, or special reason?
It has been like this as far back as I remmeber.
I assume that one has planned to set the shell in Kconfig back then.

> Is it good to rename it to KBUILD_SHELL or something else?
Please do so, to free up the CONFIG_ namespace.

I the end Michal will decide if he want this cleanup.
On the top of my head I see no problems in doing this,
but maybe there are some out-of-tree modules or similar
we need to consider...

Sam


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