Subject: Re: More config changes, for ro source tree and disjoint build trees
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/12/1996 23:05:56
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> The config grammar could be changed to understand an "option" keyword
> which tells it to emit an "option_<option>.h" file. These "option"
> directives could be placed in sys/conf/files and the machine-dependent
> files.<whatever> ... for bus-specific options, files.<bus>.
To be honest, I would rather see something which allowd you to nearly
build a kernel config file from a running kernel. I would love to see
some sort of "supported options" list in the kernel itself, with names
and status info.
--Michael