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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] Add ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:41:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114194142.GC10047@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071113142935.063097504@polymtl.ca>

Hi Mathieu.

> 
> It would be much better to do
> 
>         depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
> 
> in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just
> have a
> 
>         bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
>                 default y

The above suggestion is actually not exactly the best way to do it...
First the naming..
A quick grep shows following usage today (in Kconfig files)
ARCH_HAS	51
ARCH_SUPPORTS	4
HAVE_ARCH	7

ARCH_HAS is the clear winner.


In the common Kconfig file do:

config FOO
	depends on ARCH_HAS_FOO
	bool "bla bla" 

config ARCH_HAS_FOO
	def_bool n


In the arch specific Kconfig file in a suitable place do:

config SUITABLE_OPTION
	select ARCH_HAS_FOO


The naming of ARCH_HAS_ is fixed and shall be:
ARCH_HAS_<config option it will enable>


Only a single line added pr. architecture.
And we will end up with a (maybe even commented) list of trivial selects.

Sorry for providing late feedback on this!

	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-14 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-13 14:26 [patch 0/4] Instrumentation menu removal Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 14:26 ` [patch 1/4] Create arch/Kconfig Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 14:26 ` [patch 2/4] Add ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-14 19:41   ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-11-14 21:35     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-14 21:54       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-11-13 14:26 ` [patch 3/4] Add ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-13 14:26 ` [patch 4/4] Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig Mathieu Desnoyers
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-16  2:36 [patch 0/4] Instrumentation menu removal, updated to 2.6.24-rc2-git5 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-16  2:36 ` [patch 2/4] Add ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-16  1:59 [patch 0/4] Updated instrumentation menu patches Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-16  1:59 ` [patch 2/4] Add ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-16  2:08   ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-16  2:23     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-16  2:30       ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-16  3:10         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-06 20:37 [patch 0/4] Move Instrumentation Support menu to arch/Kconfig Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-11-06 20:37 ` [patch 2/4] Add ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-31  1:03 [patch 0/4] Add ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES (take 2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-31  1:03 ` [patch 2/4] Add ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-31  0:31 [patch 0/4] Creation of arch/Kconfig for ARCH_SUPPORTS_* options Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-10-31  0:31 ` [patch 2/4] Add ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPROFILE Mathieu Desnoyers

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