linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] UML changes for 3.2

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Date:	Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:37:24 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Foley <pefoley2@...izon.net>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] UML changes for 3.2

Am 03.11.2011 22:25, schrieb Paul Bolle:
> On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 22:15 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> I'm confused. What is "make update-po-config" supposed to do?
>> It seems to iterate over all archs and reads their Kconfig, right?
> 
> It generates an enormous file (linux.pot) with all (help?) strings in
> all Kconfig files that people could translate from English to other
> languages. Seems like quite an effort to do that. I wonder if it has
> ever been done.
> 

Okay, now it makes sense.

Your patch looks fine with one exception, setting SUBARCH to the empty
string could be problematic in the future.
Currently it's only used in arch/x86/um/Kconfig for 'mainmenu "User Mode
Linux/$SUBARCH $KERNELVERSION Kernel Configuration"'
But this may change...

Thanks,
//richard


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