Subject: Re: Kernel config file
To: matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/18/2007 03:12:37
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, matthew sporleder wrote:
> Personally, I think the idea of using xml for this sort of thing is a
> lot nicer (and certainly more modern) than attempting to fit
> everything into more "flat" formats.

I guess the idea was not so much to use XML, but to use whatever is 
available for handling config file reading/parsing/handling available. 
Which is proplib(3).

Just think of the result as binary data that has the appropriate user 
interface (userconf, and the userland tool to dump userconf changes to the 
config file).


  - Hubert