Re: [PATCH] Additional patch for toplevel Makefile driver lists

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 20 2000 - 09:39:00 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Ok, this definitely looks a lot cleaner.
>
> We'll end up reading and parsing the config file multiple times, something
> I wonder a bit about, but my gut feel is that this is the "right"
> approach.

The alternative is reading and parsing the environment variables, and
they have to be copied via the execve too. I should think there's no a
lot of difference between the two -- except the config file approach
works :-)

-- Jamie

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