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diff --git a/kconfig/README b/kconfig/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8809bbff --- /dev/null +++ b/kconfig/README @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +This is a snapshot of linux 2.6.12 kconfig as washed through busybox and +further modified by Rob Landley. + +Way back when I tried to push my local changes to kconfig upstream +in 2005 https://lwn.net/Articles/161086/ +and 2006 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0607.0/1805.html +and 2007 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1741.html +each of which spawned long "I think you should go do this and this and this +but I'm not going to lift a finger personally" threads from the kernel +developers. Twice I came back a year later to see if there was any interest +in what I _had_ done, and the third thread was the longest of the lot but +no code was merged as a result. + +*shrug* That's the linux-kernel community for you. I had an easier time +than the author of squashfs, who spent 5 years actively trying to get his code +merged, finally quitting his job to spend an unpaid year working on upstreaming +squashfs _after_ after every major Linux distro had been locally carrying it +for years. No really, here's where he wrote about it himself: + +https://lwn.net/Articles/563578/ + +This code is _going_away_. Rewriting it is low priority, but removing it is a +checklist item for the 1.0 toybox release. This directory contains the only +GPL code left in the tree, and none of its code winds up in the resulting +binary. It's just an editor that reads our Config.in files to update the top +level .config file; you can edit they by hand if you really want to. |