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