Re: [GIT]: Networking

[David Miller]

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 06:51:44 +0100

> We should avoid a central file and push this information
> out to the Kconfig files that are at the driver site.
> 
> Then we can postprocess autoconf.h to get the filenames etc.

I'll take this opportunity to once again promote my idea wherein build
information (and perhaps other bits like firmware info) for a driver
is encoded into the source of the driver itself, and the build system
just extracts that stuff into Makefiles and whatnot at build time. :-)

Couldn't resist.
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