From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: 64bit clean drivers was Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre1
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:47:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020808164742.GA5780@cadcamlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208081142390.23063-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu>
[Kai Germaschewski]
> As you're hacking Configure anyway, what about "fixing"
>
> dep_tristate ' ..' CONFIG_FOO $CONFIG_BAR,
I've thought about that many times. I think the cleanest solution is
to deprecate the '$' entirely:
dep_tristate ' ..' CONFIG_FOO CONFIG_BAR
and, while we're at it, deprecate the 'dep_' prefix as well - can't
"tristate" and "bool" unambiguously handle this?
I think the above can be done quite easily with a bit of 'eval' work
(which *will* slow down 'make *config' ... but do we care?)
Supporting the old syntax simultaneously should not be hard either.
I'm just not sure whether or not it's appropriate for 2.4.20. It *is*
easily testable stuff, but....
And I haven't looked at xconfig. (I don't usually even run X.)
xconfig *does* do static parsing, and is thus superior to Configure
and Menuconfig, but the whole method of "translate Config.in into TCL
then execute it" makes it (imo) really hard to hack on.
Let me see if I can find time to roll a patch sometime today..
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-08 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200208062329.g76NTqP30962@devserv.devel.redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-08-07 10:01 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-07 11:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 10:41 ` 64bit clean drivers was " Andi Kleen
2002-08-07 12:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 11:04 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-07 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 11:18 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-07 11:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 11:56 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-07 13:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-07 16:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-08 15:14 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-08 16:49 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-08 16:47 ` Peter Samuelson [this message]
2002-08-09 4:15 ` [patch] config language dep_* enhancements Peter Samuelson
2002-08-09 14:43 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2002-08-09 15:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-08-12 10:38 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-09 16:10 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-12 11:04 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-12 14:46 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-12 19:45 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-12 21:40 ` [kbuild-devel] " Tom Rini
2002-08-12 22:13 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-12 22:15 ` Tom Rini
2002-08-12 22:32 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-12 22:47 ` Tom Rini
2002-08-12 23:17 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-12 23:32 ` Tom Rini
2002-08-13 3:35 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-13 0:03 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-13 7:54 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-13 3:33 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-13 9:32 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-13 10:32 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
[not found] ` <3D587483.1C459694@alphalink.com.au>
2002-08-13 3:39 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-13 4:31 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-13 14:00 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2002-08-13 15:53 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-13 18:48 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-14 1:13 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 3:28 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 4:35 ` [patch] kernel config 3/N - move sound into drivers/media Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 5:08 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-14 5:49 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 10:56 ` [kbuild-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-14 12:20 ` S390 vs S390x, was " Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-14 17:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-14 18:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-14 21:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-14 19:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-14 22:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-14 6:14 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 6:31 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 8:16 ` Russell King
2002-08-14 6:01 ` [kbuild-devel] Re: [patch] config language dep_* enhancements Greg Banks
2002-08-14 8:18 ` Russell King
2002-08-14 14:22 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-15 1:28 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-15 2:33 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-15 3:27 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-13 18:43 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-13 20:48 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 1:27 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 1:42 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 2:27 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 2:57 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 4:39 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-14 5:35 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 11:40 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-15 1:52 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2002-08-15 3:30 ` John Alvord
2002-08-16 2:24 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-15 9:46 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-15 14:43 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-15 20:12 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-16 2:08 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-16 10:54 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-19 9:27 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-19 10:20 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-20 14:10 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-20 17:51 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-19 20:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-08-20 14:28 ` David Woodhouse
2002-08-23 15:18 ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-08-23 23:03 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-24 12:43 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 1:19 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-12 15:47 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-13 3:23 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2002-08-13 16:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2002-08-13 16:20 ` [kbuild-devel] " Peter Samuelson
2002-08-14 0:22 ` Greg Banks
2002-08-14 20:14 ` Get rid of shell based Config.in parsers? Sam Ravnborg
2002-08-14 22:21 ` [kbuild-devel] " Peter Samuelson
2002-08-15 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-08 23:57 ` 64bit clean drivers was Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre1 Thunder from the hill
2002-08-08 19:23 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-08 20:03 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-08 20:19 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-08 17:42 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-09 10:21 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-09 11:47 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-09 12:07 ` Russell King
2002-08-09 12:49 ` Peter Samuelson
2002-08-09 14:53 ` [kbuild-devel] " Greg Banks
2002-08-09 22:37 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-08 20:37 ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-08 20:51 ` Roman Zippel
2002-08-07 17:31 ` Thunder from the hill
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