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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>,
	Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML1 cleanup patch
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 02:43:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ABEF32E.B8142334@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23860.985591724@ocs3.ocs-net>

Keith Owens wrote:
> That just leaves the 17 names of the form CONFIG_[0-9]*.  Only the 8139
> is likely to affect outside the kernel and the argument that renaming
> config options might affect external packages does not hold.  The
> recent aic7xxx change broke pcmcia on 2.2 kernels but we can work round
> it.

There is no good reason to restrict the CML2 identifier namespace.

This is a policy change not a cleanup.

-- 
Jeff Garzik       | May you have warm words on a cold evening,
Building 1024     | a full moon on a dark night,
MandrakeSoft      | and a smooth road all the way to your door.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-26  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200103260001.f2Q01Yt09387@snark.thyrsus.com>
2001-03-26  6:08 ` CML1 cleanup patch Peter Samuelson
2001-03-26  6:24   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-26  6:42     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-26  7:09       ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-03-26  7:20         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-26  7:30           ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-03-26  7:37             ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-26  7:28         ` [kbuild-devel] " Keith Owens
2001-03-26  7:43           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-03-26  7:52             ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-03-26 14:34       ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-26  6:49     ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-03-26  7:01       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-03-26  7:02       ` Alan Cox
2001-03-26  7:12         ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-03-26 14:43           ` Alan Cox
2001-03-26  7:22       ` Peter Samuelson
2001-03-26  7:40         ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-03-26  6:32   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-03-26 11:57     ` [kbuild-devel] " John Cowan
2001-03-26 14:55       ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-26 17:54         ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-04-15  9:07         ` Kai Henningsen
2001-04-15 20:52           ` Olaf Titz
2001-03-26  7:33 Michael Elizabeth Chastain

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