Re: Cross-referencing frenzy

Mike Castle
2001-04-19T13:23:46Z

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:49:01PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> However, I'm not sure that your reasoning for removing these is correct.
> For example, one symbol that I saw was CONFIG_EXT2_CHECK, which is code
> that used to be enabled in the kernel, but is currently #ifdef'd out with
> the above symbol. When Ted changed this, he wasn't sure whether we would

How about something besides CONFIG_ then? Like maybe DEV_CONFIG_ or DEV_.

The CONFIG_ name space should be reserved for things that can be configured
via the config mechanism.

Things that only developers or special testers might want should use
something other than the CONFIG_ namespace.

mrc
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