Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-13T07:39:18Z

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:41:49 -0800 (PST)
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>
> > Here are some odd-the-cuff
> > suggestions:
> >
> > 1) Make feature-removal-schedule a directory with files in it.
> > Everyone touches that file, creating merge issues.
> >
> > 2) Let's move away from some/dir/{Kconfig,Makefile} schemes and
> > instead have each "thing" have it's own Kconfig.foo or
> > Makefile.foo that gets automatically sucked into the main
> > directory Makefile or Kconfig using file globs or similar.
> >
> > Even better, encode the building of things into the *.[ch]
> > files themselves, and have the Kconfig/Makefile machinery
> > automatically extract this information when you build.
>
> 3) teach people that you don't always have to add new includes right
> at the end of the list
>
> 4) teach people that you don't have to add Makefile rules right at the
> end of the list

If the list is already sorted, I insert it at the right position.
If not, well...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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