linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] kconfig: introduce KCONFIG

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Message-ID: <20080524204438.GA3136@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sat, 24 May 2008 22:44:38 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kconfig: introduce KCONFIG_* symbols for .c files

> 
> If you really want to be able to transform all #if's in .c files to 
> if()'s you also have to offer a variant of our MODULE #define.
1) I have no pland to replace the current CONFIG_ use.
2) I do not follow whay you try to say about our "MODULE #define"

> >...
> 
> Also an error message if if the varible is not currently available on 
> this architecture (e.g. KCONFIG_ISA on ia64).
> 
> Not an unsolvable problem, but something that has to be taken care of.

My master plan is to have a single configuration for the kernel
and not as today where we have one configuration for each architecture.

How far away we are from that I dunno. It is a while I visited this.
And I will not have time to do so anytime soon I'm afraid.

	Sam
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