Re: Makefile changes for kernel add-ons

Robert L Krawitz (rlk@hindemith.aptinc.com)
Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:50:21 +0500

Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 13:16:41 -0600 (MDT)
From: Robert Riggs <rriggs@tesser.com>
Cc: groudier@iplus.fr, torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi, rlk@aptinc.com

I also added the following patch to the end of Robert Krawitz's
memcpy patch:
...
And likewise to the NcrBsd Driver from Gerard Roudier:
...

The first obvious problem: the two patches conflict.

The other problem is that these addons only indicate whether the patch
is installed, not whether it's configured in. I provide a config
option with my memcpy, and if you disable it it shouldn't be showing
up in the version string (or anywhere else, for that matter).

What I think would be more useful would be a /proc/config that would
contain a list of all options configured in (and perhaps all modules,
too). Then the burden would be on people writing third party kernel
software (modules or otherwise) to provide the appropriate
configuration options.

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Robert Krawitz <rlk@aptinc.com>
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