1 This is a snapshot of linux 2.6.12 kconfig as washed through busybox and 2 further modified by Rob Landley. 3 4 Note: The build infrastructure in this directory is still GPLv2. Cleaning 5 that out is a TODO item, but it doesn't affect the resulting binary. 6 7 Way back when I tried to push my local changes to kconfig upstream 8 in 2005 https://lwn.net/Articles/161086/ 9 and 2006 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0607.0/1805.html 10 and 2007 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0707.1/1741.html 11 each of which spawned long "I think you should go do this and this and this 12 but I'm not going to lift a finger personally" threads from the kernel 13 developers. Twice I came back a year later to see if there was any interest 14 in what I _had_ done, and the third thread was the longest of the lot but 15 no code was merged as a result. 16 17 *shrug* That's the linux-kernel community for you. I had an easier time 18 than the author of squashfs, who spent 5 years actively trying to get his code 19 merged, finally quitting his job to spend an unpaid year working on upstreaming 20 squashfs _after_ after every major Linux distro had been locally carrying it 21 for years. No really, here's where he wrote about it himself: 22 23 https://lwn.net/Articles/563578/ 24 25 This code is _going_away_. Rewriting it is low priority, but removing it is a 26 checklist item for the 1.0 toybox release. This directory contains the only 27 GPL code left in the tree, and none of its code winds up in the resulting 28 binary. It's just an editor that reads our Config.in files to update the top 29 level .config file; you can edit they by hand if you really want to. 30
