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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt | 19 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt | 2 |
4 files changed, 12 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt index c858f8419eb..350f733bf2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax). - "modules" This declares the symbol to be used as the MODULES symbol, which enables the third modular state for all config symbols. + At most one symbol may have the "modules" option set. - "env"=<value> This imports the environment variable into Kconfig. It behaves like @@ -156,6 +157,10 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax). to the build environment (if this is desired, it can be done via another symbol). + - "allnoconfig_y" + This declares the symbol as one that should have the value y when + using "allnoconfig". Used for symbols that hide other symbols. + Menu dependencies ----------------- diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt index e349f293cc9..bbc99c0c109 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt @@ -20,16 +20,9 @@ symbols have been introduced. To see a list of new config symbols when using "make oldconfig", use cp user/some/old.config .config - yes "" | make oldconfig >conf.new + make listnewconfig -and the config program will list as (NEW) any new symbols that have -unknown values. Of course, the .config file is also updated with -new (default) values, so you can use: - - grep "(NEW)" conf.new - -to see the new config symbols or you can use diffconfig to see the -differences between the previous and new .config files: +and the config program will list any new symbols, one per line. scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | less @@ -175,11 +168,9 @@ Searching in menuconfig: /^hotplug When searching, symbols are sorted thus: - - exact match first: an exact match is when the search matches - the complete symbol name; - - alphabetical order: when two symbols do not match exactly, - they are sorted in alphabetical order (in the user's current - locale). + - first, exact matches, sorted alphabetically (an exact match + is when the search matches the complete symbol name); + - then, other matches, sorted alphabetically. For example: ^ATH.K matches: ATH5K ATH9K ATH5K_AHB ATH5K_DEBUG [...] ATH6KL ATH6KL_DEBUG [...] ATH9K_AHB ATH9K_BTCOEX_SUPPORT ATH9K_COMMON [...] diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index d567a7cc552..c600e2f44a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -1171,7 +1171,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): obvious reason. dtc - Create flattend device tree blob object suitable for linking + Create flattened device tree blob object suitable for linking into vmlinux. Device tree blobs linked into vmlinux are placed in an init section in the image. Platform code *must* copy the blob to non-init memory prior to calling unflatten_device_tree(). diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt index 69372fb98cf..3fb39e0116b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ build. Sometimes, an external module uses exported symbols from another external module. kbuild needs to have full knowledge of - all symbols to avoid spliitting out warnings about undefined + all symbols to avoid spitting out warnings about undefined symbols. Three solutions exist for this situation. NOTE: The method with a top-level kbuild file is recommended |