Re: [RFC 01/29] build: import Kbuild/Kconfig from Linux 4.2

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 07/10/2015 09:19, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 00:32 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 06.10.15 at 18:47, <cardoe@cardoe.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/6/15 7:45 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> Also, btw - I don't think we should name the thing Kconfig in Xen;
>>>> Xconfig would be odd too (to be confused with X), so maybe
>>>> XenConfig?
>>> I forgot to answer the 2nd paragraph in my last reply. Sticking to
>>> Kconfig was actually intentional to make it easy for us to stay in sync
>>> with upstream development of Kconfig.
>> How would a difference in names significantly hamper that?
> It doesn't seem to me that cosmetic differences like file names are worth
> forking over, even if the actual patch to do so would be trivial (I don't
> know if it is or not).
>
> The language and the tool which implements it is called Kconfig (or
> kconfig), the fact that K may once-upon-a-time have meant Kernel doesn't
> seem terribly relevant to me.

I concur.  Keeping it called kconfig will allow more people to know
exactly what it is.

~Andrew