[PATCH] Kconfig: sync with linux kernel v2.6.35-4771-g1787985

Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD plagnioj at jcrosoft.com
Sat Aug 14 00:35:16 EDT 2010


> We could instead pick this up from the mainmenu entry.
> 
> So we in a Kconfig file could have:
> 
> mainmenu "My application configuration - version $VERSION"
> 
> config VERSION
> 	string
> 	option env=VERSION
> 
> 
> The text in mainmenu will have all references to $SOMETHING
> expanded to the string representation of that symbol.
> 
> And we can use existing functionality to pick up environment variables.
> 
> The frontends needs to be adapted as well as the kconfig backend.
> 
> But doing the above I guess we have 'fixed' almost all kernel references.
I like it

and how about the new set/select option I mention also?

because I also take a look in the kernel for ARM as example and it will be
usefull to simplify it

Best Regards,
J.



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