Re: [PATCH] conditionalize some boring buffer_head checks

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:31:50 -0400 Chris Friesen wrote:

| Jeff Garzik wrote:
| > Tim Hockin wrote:
| > 
| >> Somewhat off the original topic, but am I the only one who finds it weird
| >> (and error-prone) that you have to add the same KConfig to a dozen or 
| >> more
| >> Kconfig files?
| >>
| >> Shouldn't there be a KConfig libe, and all you need to do for the arch is
| >> reference the CONFIG_FOO from the lib?  Would at least save all the
| >> duplicate strings and definitions...
| 
| > Seems a lot easier just to gather the common definitions into a Kconfig 
| > file, and include it via the standard 'source' directive.
| 
| Either way, I personally would be extremely grateful for some kind of 
| standard way to add a new configurable generic feature to every 
| architecture.  I'm tired of having to add it manually.  I hadn't 
| realized about the "source" feature--seems like we should be able to 
| pull a lot of stuff into something like that even now.
| 
| On a side note, why is there no Kconfig for the "kernel" directory?

Use init/Kconfig for that.

--
~Randy
"We have met the enemy and he is us."  -- Pogo (by Walt Kelly)
(Again.  Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)