Re: [PATCH] Start to genericize kconfig for use by other projects.

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:44:18PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 12:28:39 pm Roman Zippel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > Replace name "Linux Kernel" in menuconfig with a macro (defaulting to
> > > "Linux Kernel" if not -Ddefined by the makefile), and remove a few
> > > unnecessary occurrences of "kernel" in pop-up text.
> >
> > Could you drop the PROJECT_NAME changes for now? The rest looks fine.
> > I would prefer if the project would be settable via Kconfig.
> 
> Are projects likely to grab a common kconfig binary externally, rather
> than build their own? 

Yes.

If you really want to share kconfig, it'd be better to break it off
into a separately packaged project. For the time being, the kernel
makefiles can look for it in path, then fall back to its own copy
which we can eventually drop.

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