| 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. |
