Re: linux kernel conf 0.8

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:01:50PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Some things made me go eww (but on the whole details):
> >
> >  - I'd prefer the Config.in name, since this has nothing to do with
> >    building, and everything to do with configuration.

Another suggestion about naming:
Take for example drivers/net:
cat Config.* | wc => 2149 lines

A bit a structure could be needed here.
Net.conf  <= Name equals directory with upper-case first letter
	- Cover the whole directory, and either implicit
	  or explicit include other .conf files in that directory
3c5xx.conf <= All the configuration for the 3c5xxx chipset drivers
rrunner.conf <= All configuration for rrunner driver

So letting the naming convention be directory name with upper-case start
letter - as the entry to a directory.
Additional configuration in sensibly named configuration files.
I do not see the split of configuration happen before 2.6, except in 
some special cases though. But I wanted to let the naming convention
support that.

source statements could look like:
source driver/net  <= since Net.conf is implicit
But I would prefer the files spelled out. 

> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >  - I assume that the scripts are generated from the current Config.in
> >    and Config.help files, and it would make me slightly happier to see the
> >    diff as a "automatic script" + "diff to fix it up", just for doc
> >    purposes.
> 
> All this is in the archive.

Keep both versions please. It's much easier just to apply a patch,
but I see why Linus ask for the other solution.
I know what version has preference ;-)

	Sam