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