Go to file
Masahiro Yamada 88110713ca kbuild: hardcode genksyms path and remove GENKSYMS variable
The genksyms source was integrated into the kernel tree in 2003.

I do not expect anybody still using the external /sbin/genksyms.
Kbuild does not need to provide the ability to override GENKSYMS.

Let's remove the GENKSYMS variable, and use the hardcoded path.

Since it occurred in the pre-git era, I attached the commit message
in case somebody is interested in the historical background.

  | Author: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
  | Date:   Wed Feb 19 04:17:28 2003 -0600
  |
  | kbuild: [PATCH] put genksyms in scripts dir
  |
  | This puts genksyms into scripts/genksyms/.
  |
  | genksyms used to be maintained externally, though the only possible user
  | was the kernel build. Moving it into the kernel sources makes it easier to
  | keep it uptodate, like for example updating it to generate linker scripts
  | directly instead of postprocessing the generated header file fragments
  | with sed, as we do currently.
  |
  | Also, genksyms does not handle __typeof__, which needs to be fixed since
  | some of the exported symbol in the kernel are defined using __typeof__.
  |
  | (Rusty Russell/me)

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2019-02-27 21:41:26 +09:00
Documentation kbuild: turn '/' into an alias of './' 2019-02-20 09:42:47 +09:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch kbuild: add real-prereqs shorthand for $(filter-out FORCE,$^) 2019-01-28 09:11:17 +09:00
block Revert "block: cover another queue enter recursion via BIO_QUEUE_ENTERED" 2019-01-27 06:35:28 -07:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto crypto: sm3 - fix undefined shift by >= width of value 2019-01-10 21:37:32 +08:00
drivers Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-01-27 11:25:38 -08:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs a set of small smb3 fixes, some fixing various crediting issues discovered during xfstest runs, five for stable 2019-01-26 15:38:22 -08:00
include Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-01-27 11:52:50 -08:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-14 10:37:09 +09:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-01-27 11:55:06 -08:00
lib XArray updates for 5.0-rc3 2019-01-22 17:08:30 +13:00
mm for-linus-20190125 2019-01-26 12:42:41 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-01-27 08:59:12 -08:00
samples samples/bpf: workaround clang asm goto compilation errors 2019-01-15 20:57:30 +01:00
scripts kbuild: hardcode genksyms path and remove GENKSYMS variable 2019-02-27 21:41:26 +09:00
security Merge branch 'fixes-v5.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-17 16:54:58 +12:00
sound sound fixes for 5.0-rc4 2019-01-25 05:55:26 +13:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-01-27 12:02:00 -08:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt KVM: validate userspace input in kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect() 2019-01-11 18:38:07 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update .clang-format with the latest for_each macro list 2019-01-19 19:26:06 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Add CREDITS entry for Shaohua Li 2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: remove unimportant comments from ./Kbuild 2019-02-27 21:40:01 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-01-27 08:59:12 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: hardcode genksyms path and remove GENKSYMS variable 2019-02-27 21:41:26 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.