Re: [PATCH] Kconfig cleanup, part 1

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:36:37AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> I'd really like to do a more extensive cleanup along the lines of
> Matthew Wilcox's patch:
> 
>     http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.1296.78.7
> 
> but I'm not sure how people feel about this during 2.6.  I guess if
> we want to do it at all in 2.6, sooner's better than later.  For a
> sample of what the cleaned-up version looks like, try:

I'm working towards this on several architectures.  A large part of this
is marking options as "depends on PCI" and "depends on X86" so that the
simulator targets (Ski, uml, etc) can use the generic drivers/Kconfig.
That work's going in through the kernel-janitors tree at the moment.

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