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From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
Cc: ecki-lkm@lina.inka.de, <Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be>,
	<rpjday@mindspring.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: why the current kernel config menu layout is a mess
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:07:46 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307251702340.717-100000@serv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307251458.h6PEwAMD001065@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk>

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, John Bradford wrote:

> Maybe a completely new, out of kernel tree configurator would be worth
> thinking about, leaving the in-kernel configurator as a legacy option.
> I know the config system underwent a major overhaul during 2.5, but I
> think we could go even further.

Maybe you should look first at something before you throw it away?
Kconfig is already modular, the Kconfig parser is a library, which you can 
easily connect to your favourite script language and then you can do with 
the Kconfig data whatever you want.

bye, Roman


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-25 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-25 14:58 why the current kernel config menu layout is a mess John Bradford
2003-07-25 15:07 ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2003-07-25 15:26 ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-25 15:51   ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-25 16:11   ` Herbert Pötzl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-25 15:53 John Bradford
2003-07-25 15:28 John Bradford
2003-07-25 13:18 Frederick, Fabian
2003-07-25  0:56 Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-25  1:27 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-25 12:46   ` Robert P. J. Day
2003-07-25 14:10     ` Tomas Szepe

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