[rfc] Re: [PATCH] Make UIO available for arm architecture

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>]

On Aug 8 2007 18:08, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
>---
>Index: linux-2.6.23-rc/arch/arm/Kconfig
>===================================================================
>--- linux-2.6.23-rc.orig/arch/arm/Kconfig	2007-08-08 17:52:02.000000000 +0200
>+++ linux-2.6.23-rc/arch/arm/Kconfig	2007-08-08 17:53:29.000000000 +0200
>@@ -1052,6 +1052,8 @@
> 
> source "drivers/dma/Kconfig"
> 
>+source "drivers/uio/Kconfig"
>+
> endmenu
> 
> source "fs/Kconfig"

I am raising a general question here.
Should not such cross-platform things be made available in a general
Kconfig rather than having to patch each arch's Kconfig?

I am thinking of drivers/Kconfig for this one (of course I am aware that this
requires an extra "depends on X86 || SPARC || others" in drivers/pci/Kconfig),
and perhaps even a top-level Kconfig for things like truly arch-independent
fs/Kconfig.


	Jan
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