From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:11:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:11:35 -0400 Received: from pasmtp.tele.dk ([193.162.159.95]:62472 "EHLO pasmtp.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:11:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:16:00 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Roman Zippel Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , kbuild-devel Subject: Re: linux kernel conf 0.8 Message-ID: <20021009191600.A1708@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Roman Zippel , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , kbuild-devel References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from zippel@linux-m68k.org on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:01:50PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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