From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:45:02 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kconfig cleanup, part 1 Message-Id: <20040117004502.GB16779@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> List-Id: References: <200401161136.37066.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200401161136.37066.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 05:22:36PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Here comes the revised entire patch: [...] > config 64BIT > - def_bool y > + bool > + default y > Why make this change? def_bool is shorter and (to my mind ;-) neater. > config ITANIUM_BSTEP_SPECIFIC > - bool "Enable Itanium B-step specific code" > + bool "Itanium B-step specific code" > depends on ITANIUM > help > Select this option to build a kernel for an Itanium prototype system > @@ -198,38 +192,30 @@ > > # align cache-sensitive data to 64 bytes > config MCKINLEY_ASTEP_SPECIFIC > - bool "Enable McKinley A-step specific code" > + bool "McKinley A-step specific code" > depends on MCKINLEY > help > Select this option to build a kernel for an IA-64 McKinley prototype > system with any A-stepping CPU. > > config MCKINLEY_A0_SPECIFIC > - bool "Enable McKinley A0/A1-step specific code" > + bool "McKinley A0/A1-step specific code" > depends on MCKINLEY_ASTEP_SPECIFIC > help > Select this option to build a kernel for an IA-64 McKinley prototype > system with an A0 or A1 stepping CPU. Possibly we should kill these options and the code they enable now. Is anyone still using A-step McKinleys and B-step Merceds? > config NUMA > - bool "Enable NUMA support" if IA64_GENERIC || IA64_DIG || IA64_HP_ZX1 > - default y if IA64_SGI_SN2 || IA64_GENERIC > + bool "NUMA support" > + depends on !IA64_HP_SIM > + default y if IA64_SGI_SN2 Nice change, much more clear. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain