From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762957AbXGLXR1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:17:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759429AbXGLXRS (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:17:18 -0400 Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53]:59065 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758381AbXGLXRR (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:17:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:16:45 -0500 From: Matt Mackall To: Rob Landley Cc: Roman Zippel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [PATCH] Start to genericize kconfig for use by other projects. Message-ID: <20070712231645.GY11166@waste.org> References: <200707111522.14240.rob@landley.net> <200707121444.18599.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200707121444.18599.rob@landley.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:44:18PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > On Thursday 12 July 2007 12:28:39 pm Roman Zippel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > > > Replace name "Linux Kernel" in menuconfig with a macro (defaulting to > > > "Linux Kernel" if not -Ddefined by the makefile), and remove a few > > > unnecessary occurrences of "kernel" in pop-up text. > > > > Could you drop the PROJECT_NAME changes for now? The rest looks fine. > > I would prefer if the project would be settable via Kconfig. > > Are projects likely to grab a common kconfig binary externally, rather > than build their own? Yes. If you really want to share kconfig, it'd be better to break it off into a separately packaged project. For the time being, the kernel makefiles can look for it in path, then fall back to its own copy which we can eventually drop. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.