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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kconfig: introduce KCONFIG_* symbols for .c files
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> 
> If you really want to be able to transform all #if's in .c files to 
> if()'s you also have to offer a variant of our MODULE #define.
1) I have no pland to replace the current CONFIG_ use.
2) I do not follow whay you try to say about our "MODULE #define"

> >...
> 
> Also an error message if if the varible is not currently available on 
> this architecture (e.g. KCONFIG_ISA on ia64).
> 
> Not an unsolvable problem, but something that has to be taken care of.

My master plan is to have a single configuration for the kernel
and not as today where we have one configuration for each architecture.

How far away we are from that I dunno. It is a while I visited this.
And I will not have time to do so anytime soon I'm afraid.

	Sam