linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 09/11] backports: use Kconfig for backport version information

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Message-ID: <20141104233338.GH12953@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2014 00:33:38 +0100
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>,
	backports@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	yann.morin.1998@...e.fr, mmarek@...e.cz, sassmann@...nic.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 09/11] backports: use Kconfig for backport version
	information

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 11:13:05AM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 00:43 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
> > 
> > Instead of relying on Makefile hacks just use Kconfig for
> > defining the variables needed. We can do this since these
> > variables are all known at packaging time. The exception
> > is BACKPORTS_GIT_TRACKED, but for that we can define a
> > kconfig variable which only if set will we rely on the
> > environment for picking it up and later exporting it through
> > Kconfig. Since Kconfig doesn't keep config variables defined
> > with option env we use a secondary config entry for that.
> 
> I'd prefer you didn't do this. When we track the backports in a git tree
> this will mean constant changes to these files, where currently the
> changes are constrained to just the "versions" file.

I wanted to at least unify the C code defines for the shared
versioning information, I've come up with a way that
minimizes the changes to the existing packaging stuff,
will send in my respin. Hopefully that's OK.

  Luis
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