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

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 00:43 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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.

johannes

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