Re: [ARM] Group device drivers together under their own menu

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:50:26PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 09:41:41PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Any reason you can't merge ARM's options into the drivers/*/Kconfig (with
> > appropriate conditionals) and use drivers/Kconfig?
> 
> Dunno.  Haven't gotten around to sorting that out yet, and I don't
> particularly fancy trying to fight any corners over it.
> 
> I think, a while back, it was thought to be better to keep ARM separate
> to keep the conditionals out of drivers/Kconfig.
> 
> If the general concensus has changed, I might eventually sort it out if
> it causes enough trouble, or people think there's sufficient value to it.

As the original author of drivers/Kconfig, I think it's a brilliant
idea that everybody should use ;-)  I haven't heard any dissenting
opinions yet.  The only complaint I've heard is that net/Kconfig is now
under device drivers.  I didn't make that change, and I agree it sucks.

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