Re: [PATCH v2 05/13] backports: use BACKPORT_DIR prefix on kconfig sources

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Wed Nov 05 2014 - 16:19:23 EST


On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 21:11 +0100, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

> This does mean that bp_prefix topic *can* also be tied down
> with this other directory prefix as a form of 'builder' for
> integration. Making the prefix configurable would make sense
> then only if also making the directory prefix should be
> configurable.

Indeed.

> I think we're better off right now with just supporting two
> approaches with their own directory prefix, and prefixes
> for variables.

Sure, that's fine. I have no issues with either, but I'd like to see the
two cases actually combined and separated, in the sense that you don't
have magic code that tries both and just succeeds on one, but only have
code that tries the right thing.

johannes

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