From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@dolly1.pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] drivers/Kconfig
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:02:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030923160236.GA20000@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030923152032.GA16599@lst.de>
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> What do people think about creating a common drivers/Kconfig
> that includes the drivers/*/Kconfig files? This saves quite
> a few superflous Kconfig lines and is a natural way to avoid
> the architectyures going out of sync. Yes, this requires
> every driver having proper bus-depencies but we should be
> almost there already.
>
> Sample patch (for ppc, i386 and x86_64) attached.
Yes, this is the goal.
This won't be very useful to the more exotic architectures like S/390,
which use almost none of drivers/* except for drivers/s390/*, so for
non-PCI, non-ISA architectures I have a feeling that including
drivers/Kconfig would be a waste.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-23 16:02 UTC|newest]
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2003-09-23 15:20 [PATCH][RFC] drivers/Kconfig Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-23 16:02 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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