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From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@domain.hid>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH] Xenomai configuration help for Linux 2.4
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> the attached patch adds Xenomai configuration help for Linux 2.4:
> 
> Cool that you picked this up! Frankly, I didn't expect that this would
> really work without any pitfalls - but it seems to.

I immediately liked you idea. Having an easily accessible description of 
the Xenomai kernel configuration parameters helps users a lot. So far I 
just realized some problems with "choice" but they seem not related to 
the conversion. It's more likely a bug in menuconfig.

> Just one addition feature wish: Could you enhance it so that it can also
> upgrade an existing Configure.help patch? Maybe put some magic marks
> (comments) around the xeno stuff and remove the whole block before
> re-patching the help information?

You mean re-running "prepare-kernel" should update the Xenomai block in 
Configure.help? Doing it in the perl script should not be a big deal.

> Thanks,
> Jan (who wishes that this would also work for Kconfig->Config.in...)

Yeah, but...

Wolfgang.