Re: [PATCH][RFC] drivers/Kconfig

[Jeff Garzik]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:20:32PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> What do people think about creating a common drivers/Kconfig
> that includes the drivers/*/Kconfig files?  This saves quite
> a few superflous Kconfig lines and is a natural way to avoid
> the architectyures going out of sync.  Yes, this requires
> every driver having proper bus-depencies but we should be
> almost there already.
> 
> Sample patch (for ppc, i386 and x86_64) attached.  

Yes, this is the goal.

This won't be very useful to the more exotic architectures like S/390,
which use almost none of drivers/* except for drivers/s390/*, so for
non-PCI, non-ISA architectures I have a feeling that including
drivers/Kconfig would be a waste.

	Jeff




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