Re: [uml-devel] [patch 1/1] Refer to CONFIG_USERMODE, not to CONFIG_UM

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 blaisorblade_spam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> We should also figure out how to make the config process work better for UML.
> We would like to make UML able to "source drivers/Kconfig" and have the right
> drivers selectable (i.e. LVM, ramdisk, and so on) and the ones for actual
> hardware excluded. I've been reading such a request even from Jeff Dike at the
> last Kernel Summit, (in the lwn.net coverage) but without any followup.

Yes, I agree 100%!

Drivers for `modern' hardware (e.g. PCI, USB), shouldn't be a problem, since
they have good dependencies.

`legacy' hardware is more of a problem. Since the consensus was that CONFIG_ISA
is meant to indicate ISA slots, perhaps we need something like CONFIG_XBUS to
mark all these legacy drivers?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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