On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 02:04:12PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > Hi experts. > > I think all the macros with CONFIG_ prefix are supposed to be > defined in Kconfig. > But I've been long wondering why there exists one exception: > CONFIG_SHELL. > > Is there any historical, or special reason? It has been like this as far back as I remmeber. I assume that one has planned to set the shell in Kconfig back then. > Is it good to rename it to KBUILD_SHELL or something else? Please do so, to free up the CONFIG_ namespace. I the end Michal will decide if he want this cleanup. On the top of my head I see no problems in doing this, but maybe there are some out-of-tree modules or similar we need to consider... Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
