From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 08:29:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 08:29:23 -0500 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:57022 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 08:29:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:37:46 +0100 From: Tomas Szepe To: "Robert P. J. Day" Cc: lkml Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5: make gigabit ethernet into a real submenu Message-ID: <20030101133746.GD14184@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20030101131925.GA14184@louise.pinerecords.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > [rpjday@mindspring.com] > > ... ... > > perhaps a trivial question: the first patch you sent out was against > the Config.in file, which made perfect sense to me. this patch > is against the "Kconfig" file. i'm not sure what that means, > i see no such file. (then again, being a kernel newbie, i probably > just don't understand some of the fundamentals.) The first patch (Config.in) went to Marcelo, the 2.4 maintainer. The second patch (Kconfig) went to Linus, the 2.5 maintainer. The kernel config system has been significantly reworked and improved during 2.5 development. Think of Kconfig as Config.in replacement. -- Tomas Szepe