Re: [PATCH] conditionalize some boring buffer_head checks

[Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tim Hockin wrote:
> 
>> Somewhat off the original topic, but am I the only one who finds it weird
>> (and error-prone) that you have to add the same KConfig to a dozen or 
>> more
>> Kconfig files?
>>
>> Shouldn't there be a KConfig libe, and all you need to do for the arch is
>> reference the CONFIG_FOO from the lib?  Would at least save all the
>> duplicate strings and definitions...

> Seems a lot easier just to gather the common definitions into a Kconfig 
> file, and include it via the standard 'source' directive.

Either way, I personally would be extremely grateful for some kind of 
standard way to add a new configurable generic feature to every 
architecture.  I'm tired of having to add it manually.  I hadn't 
realized about the "source" feature--seems like we should be able to 
pull a lot of stuff into something like that even now.

On a side note, why is there no Kconfig for the "kernel" directory?

Chris