Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/config

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Mon Mar 01 2010 at 17:28:15 +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > Introduce experimental support for ioconf-only configuration files.
> > This is done by giving the "ioconf" keyword in the config file.
> > As a result, config produces only ioconf.c and locators.h.  Currently,
> > only "monolithic" configurations with the device path starting from
> > root are supported.  Eventually, the goal is to support a local
> > root in the input file from any point along the device tree using
> > files.* in our kernel tree.  This will make autogenerating the
> > config glue for device modules possible instead of having to write
> > it by hand like is currently required (yes, it sounds simple to
> > implement, but ...).
> > 
> > reviewed by cube.
> > (the next part will demand major discussions with you, so prepare ;)
> 
> What's the next step?
> 
> I'm considering to move cfdata[] and *_iattrdata to each driver's *.c.  Maybe
> split ioconf.c (like ioconf_cfdriver_decl_audio.c) and #include it from *.c
> (audio.c).  In the long run, the "template" part is always statically 
> generated.
> Direct configuration / user configuration parts are read from / at run-time.

My next step is to make the above work without having start from root
(done) and autogenerate the source file list (done apart from some
testing).

Truthfully though, my next step is to have coffee.