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Nicolas Pitre 237e3ad0f1 Kconfig: Introduce the "imply" keyword
The "imply" keyword is a weak version of "select" where the target
config symbol can still be turned off, avoiding those pitfalls that come
with the "select" keyword.

This is useful e.g. with multiple drivers that want to indicate their
ability to hook into a secondary subsystem while allowing the user to
configure that subsystem out without also having to unset these drivers.

Currently, the same effect can almost be achieved with:

config DRIVER_A
	tristate

config DRIVER_B
	tristate

config DRIVER_C
	tristate

config DRIVER_D
	tristate

[...]

config SUBSYSTEM_X
	tristate
	default DRIVER_A || DRIVER_B || DRIVER_C || DRIVER_D || [...]

This is unwieldy to maintain especially with a large number of drivers.
Furthermore, there is no easy way to restrict the choice for SUBSYSTEM_X
to y or n, excluding m, when some drivers are built-in. The "select"
keyword allows for excluding m, but it excludes n as well. Hence
this "imply" keyword.  The above becomes:

config DRIVER_A
	tristate
	imply SUBSYSTEM_X

config DRIVER_B
	tristate
	imply SUBSYSTEM_X

[...]

config SUBSYSTEM_X
	tristate

This is much cleaner, and way more flexible than "select". SUBSYSTEM_X
can still be configured out, and it can be set as a module when none of
the drivers are configured in or all of them are modular.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478841010-28605-2-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-11-16 09:26:33 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 84d69848c9 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
2016-10-14 14:26:58 -07:00
Nicholas Piggin fbe6e37dab kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
Allow architectures to create arch/xxx/Makefile.postlink with targets
for vmlinux, modules.ko, and clean, which will be invoked after final
linking of vmlinux and modules.

powerpc will use this to check vmlinux linker relocations for sanity,
and may use it to fix up alternate instruction patch branch addresses.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-09-09 10:47:00 +02:00
Eugeniu Rosca cfd7c612ba kconfig-language: improve menuconfig usage description
Improper menuconfig usage leads to empty menu entries.
zconfdump() is able to reveal some real-life examples:
- menuconfig VFIO_NOIOMMU
- menuconfig RESET_CONTROLLER
- menuconfig SND_ARM

To avoid future occurrences of those, improve the menuconfig syntax
description.

Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <rosca.eugeniu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-08-18 15:23:31 -06:00
James Hogan 54b880caf1 kbuild, x86: Track generated headers with generated-y
Track generated header files which aren't already in genhdr-y, alongside
generic-y wrappers in the */include/generated/[uapi/]asm/ directories.
Currently only x86 generates extra headers in these directories, for the
purposes of enumerating system calls for different ABIs, and xen
hypercalls.

This will allow the asm-generic wrapper handling code to remove stale
wrappers when files are removed from generic-y, without also removing
these headers which are generated separately.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466808144-23209-2-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-07-07 15:58:44 +02:00
Dirk Gouders 032a318719 kconfig-language: elaborate on the type of a choice
The type of a choice can be specified explicitely or it will be
set according to members of the choice group, see menu.c:menu_finalize().

Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-05-10 17:30:14 +02:00
Dirk Gouders 3e2ba95f43 kconfig-language: fix comment on dependency-generated menu structures.
In the given example, the comment becomes visible when it's dependency
is set to 'n', but the text asserts the opposite.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Gouders <dirk@gouders.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2016-05-10 17:30:09 +02:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 1c199f2878 kbuild: document recursive dependency limitation / resolution
Recursive dependency issues with kconfig are unavoidable due to
some limitations with kconfig, since these issues are recurring
provide a hint to the user how they can resolve these dependency
issues and also document why such limitation exists.

While at it also document a bit of future prospects of ways to
enhance Kconfig, including providing formal semantics and evaluation
of use of a SAT solver. If you're interested in this work or prospects
of it check out the kconfig-sat project wiki [0] and mailing list [1].

[0] http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/kconfig-sat
[1] https://groups.google.com/d/forum/kconfig-sat

Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <jbottomley@odin.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mate Soos <soos.mate@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2015-10-08 15:36:16 +02:00
David Woodhouse af1eb29132 modsign: Allow password to be specified for signing key
We don't want this in the Kconfig since it might then get exposed in
/proc/config.gz. So make it a parameter to Kbuild instead. This also
means we don't have to jump through hoops to strip quotes from it, as
we would if it was a config option.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-08-07 16:26:14 +01:00
Michal Marek 61754c1875 kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp,ld,c}flags
Since commit a1c48bb1 (Makefile: Fix unrecognized cross-compiler command
line options), the arch Makefile is included earlier by the main
Makefile, preventing the arc architecture to set its -O3 compiler
option. Since there might be more use cases for an arch Makefile to
fine-tune the options, add support for ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS and
ARCH_CFLAGS variables that are appended to the respective kbuild
variables. The user still has the final say via the KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS
and KCFLAGS variables.

Reported-by: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
2015-07-06 11:09:00 +05:30
Anish Bhatt ed45d40369 kbuild : Fix documentation of INSTALL_HDR_PATH
The header install makefile creates an 'include' directory inside
INSTALL_HDR_PATH and appending include to the path results in headers
being installed to include/include.

Don't recommend appending include to the path as makefile already does
this.

Signed-off-by: Anish Bhatt <anish@chelsio.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-06-22 09:56:07 -06:00
Jeffrey Rogers bd55daf48d kbuild: edit explanation of clean-files variable
Commit 976591810f (kbuild Update documentation of clean-files and clean-dirs)
changed the example for the clean-files variable, but left the explanation
unchanged. Edit the explanation to match the example.

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Rogers <jeffreydavidrogers@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-06-08 16:45:46 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 7734334337 Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull misc kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
 "Just a few non-critical kbuild changes:

   - builddeb adds the actual distribution name in the changelog
   - documentation fixes"

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: trivial - fix the help doc of CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
  kbuild: Update documentation of clean-files and clean-dirs
  builddeb: Try to determine distribution
  builddeb: Update year and git repository URL in debian/copyright
2015-02-19 10:31:37 -08:00
Masahiro Yamada 6dcb4e5edf kbuild: allow cc-ifversion to have the argument for false condition
The macro "try-run" can have an argument for each of true and false
cases.  Having an argument for the false case of cc-ifversion (and
ld-ifversion) would be useful too.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2015-01-09 17:25:44 +01:00
Masahiro Yamada 665d92e38f kbuild: do not add $(call ...) to invoke cc-version or cc-fullversion
The macros cc-version, cc-fullversion and ld-version take no argument.
It is not necessary to add $(call ...) to invoke them.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> [parisc]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2015-01-09 17:25:44 +01:00
Michal Marek 976591810f kbuild: Update documentation of clean-files and clean-dirs
Commit a16c5f99 (kbuild: Fix removal of the debian/ directory) slightly
changed the processing of the clean-files and clean-dirs variables.
Also, use a current real-world example of clean-files usage.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2015-01-08 14:45:50 +01:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 39fed7015c Documentation: kbuild: Improve grammar
- singular versus plural,
  - "by" versus "of",
  - missing "if", "it", "the",
  - consistent use of "xxx-specific" versus "xxx specific".

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-08-19 10:02:56 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven cf6c53db95 Documentation: kbuild: Remove obsolete dtc_cpp section
Commit b40b25fff8 ("kbuild: always
run gcc -E on *.dts, remove cmd_dtc_cpp") improved the functionality of
cmd_dtc_cpp and merged it back into cmd_dtc.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-08-19 10:02:41 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven ef80f0a1e0 Documentation: kbuild: Improve if_changed documentation
- These days if_changed is used with many more commands than ld,
    objcopy, and gzip, hence add an ellipsis,
  - Any target that utilises if_changed must be listed in $(targets),
    so it needs an assignment to "targets", not "target".

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-08-19 10:02:41 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven b22ae40ef2 Documentation: kbuild: Remove obsolete include/asm symlink step
As of commit f7f16b7799 ("kbuild: drop
include/asm"), the include/asm symlink is no longer created.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-08-19 10:02:40 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 899552d6e8 Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull misc kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 "This is the non-critical part of kbuild for 3.17-rc1:

   - make help hint to use make -s with make kernelrelease et al.
   - moved a kbuild document to Documentation/kbuild where it belongs
   - four new Coccinelle scripts, one dropped and one fixed
   - new make kselftest target to run various tests on the kernel"

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: kselftest - new make target to build and run kernel selftests
  Coccinelle: Script to replace if and BUG with BUG_ON
  Coccinelle: Script to detect incorrect argument to sizeof
  Coccinelle: Script to use ARRAY_SIZE instead of division of two sizeofs
  Coccinelle: Script to detect cast after memory allocation
  coccinelle/null: solve parse error
  Documentation: headers_install.txt is part of kbuild
  kbuild: make -s should be used with kernelrelease/kernelversion/image_name
2014-08-14 11:14:29 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 3b7b3e6ec5 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 - make clean also considers $(extra-m) and $(extra-) to be consistent
 - cleanup and fixes in scripts/Makefile.host
 - allow to override the name of the Python 2 executable with make
   PYTHON=... (only needed for ia64 in practice)
 - option to split debugingo into *.dwo files to save disk space if the
   compiler supports it (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT)
 - option to use dwarf4 debuginfo if the compiler supports it
   (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4)
 - fix for disabling certain warnings with clang
 - fix for unneeded rebuild with dash when a command contains
   backslashes

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: Fix handling of backslashes in *.cmd files
  kbuild, LLVMLinux: Supress warnings unless W=1-3
  Kbuild: Add a option to enable dwarf4 v2
  kbuild: Support split debug info v4
  kbuild: allow to override Python command name
  kbuild: clean-up and bug fix of scripts/Makefile.host
  kbuild: clean up scripts/Makefile.host
  kbuild: drop shared library support from Makefile.host
  kbuild: fix a bug of C++ host program handling
  kbuild: fix a typo in scripts/Makefile.host
  scripts/Makefile.clean: clean also $(extra-m) and $(extra-)
2014-08-14 11:12:46 -06:00
Yann Droneaud aa8dbeee5e Documentation: headers_install.txt is part of kbuild
'headers_install.txt' from Documentation/make/ is related to Kbuild
so it must be moved in Documentation/kbuild/ directory.

As Documentation/make/ directory has only one file, it will be removed
as a consequence of moving 'headers_install.txt'.

Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-08-05 16:08:11 +02:00
Masahiro Yamada 62e2210798 kbuild: drop shared library support from Makefile.host
The shared library feature in Makefile.host is no longer used.
Rip it off to keep the build infrastucture simple.

Update Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt too.
The section "4.3 Definition shared libraries" should be removed
and the following sections should be re-numbered.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-07-16 17:15:26 +02:00
Masahiro Yamada c14105628b kbuild: fix a typo in a kbuild document
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-06-18 21:38:18 +02:00
Warren Turkal 4be7f0a30b kbuild: Fix a typo in documentation
Signed-off-by: Warren Turkal <wt@penguintechs.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2014-06-10 14:14:29 +02:00
Josh Triplett 5d2acfc7b9 kconfig: make allnoconfig disable options behind EMBEDDED and EXPERT
"make allnoconfig" exists to ease testing of minimal configurations.
Documentation/SubmitChecklist includes a note to test with allnoconfig.
This helps catch missing dependencies on common-but-not-required
functionality, which might otherwise go unnoticed.

However, allnoconfig still leaves many symbols enabled, because they're
hidden behind CONFIG_EMBEDDED or CONFIG_EXPERT.  For instance, allnoconfig
still has CONFIG_PRINTK and CONFIG_BLOCK enabled, so drivers don't
typically get build-tested with those disabled.

To address this, introduce a new Kconfig option "allnoconfig_y", used on
symbols which only exist to hide other symbols.  Set it on CONFIG_EMBEDDED
(which then selects CONFIG_EXPERT).  allnoconfig will then disable all the
symbols hidden behind those.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:09 -07:00
Regid Ichira 560909d433 Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt: 'make listnewconfig' replaces: yes "" | make oldconfig
Signed-off-by: Regid Ichira <regid23@nt1.in>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: fix trailing whitespace, commit subject]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2013-10-08 23:51:50 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN e062781397 kconfig: do not allow more than one symbol to have 'option modules'
Previously, it was possible to have more than one symbol with the
'option modules' attached to them, although only the last one would
in fact control tristates.

Since this does not make much sense, only allow at most one symbol to
control tristates.

Note: it is still possible to have more than one symbol that control
tristates, but indirectly:

    config MOD1
        bool "mod1"
        select MODULES
    config MOD2
        bool "mod2"
        select MODULES
    config MODULES
        bool
        option modules

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2013-09-05 11:10:08 +02:00
Michal Marek c3286ee337 Merge branch 'yem-kconfig-rc-fixes' of git://gitorious.org/linux-kconfig/linux-kconfig into kbuild/kconfig 2013-07-23 15:57:17 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN 9e554dd7b2 Documentation/kconfig: more concise and straightforward search explanation
Re-phrase the explanations on the sorting of search results, in a more
concise and complete way.

Drop reference to the user's locale when sorting alphabetically, since
this is implicit.

Reported-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
2013-07-16 20:26:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds b202c0d520 Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
 - dependency solver fix for make defconfig
 - randconfig fixes, one of which had to be reverted again
 - more user-friendly sorting of search results
 - hex and range keywords support longs
 - fix for [mn]conf not to rely on particular behavior of the LINES and
   COLS variables
 - cleanup of magic constants in kconfig/lxdialog
 - [mn]conf formatting fixes
 - fix for scripts/config's help text in out-of-tree usage (under a
   different name)

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: allow "hex" and "range" to support longs
  Revert "kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG"
  kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG
  kconfig: loop as long as we changed some symbols in randconfig
  kconfig/[mn]conf: make it explicit in the search box that a regexp is possible
  kconfig: sort found symbols by relevance
  kconfig/conf: print the seed used to initialise the RNG for randconfig
  kconfig/conf: accept a base-16 seed for randconfig
  kconfig/conf: fix randconfig setting multiple symbols in a choice
  scripts/config: replace hard-coded script name by a dynamic value
  mconf/nconf: mark empty menus/menuconfigs different from non-empty ones
  nconf: use function calls instead of ncurses' variables LINES and COLS
  mconf: use function calls instead of ncurses' variables LINES and COLS
  kconfig/lxdialog: handle newline characters in print_autowrap()
  kconfig/lxdialog: Use new mininimum resize definitions in conf_choice()
  kconfig/lxdialog: Add definitions for mininimum (re)size values
  kconfig: Fix defconfig when one choice menu selects options that another choice menu depends on
2013-07-10 16:06:46 -07:00
Yann E. MORIN 193b40aeb5 kconfig: sort found symbols by relevance
When searching for symbols, return the symbols sorted by relevance.

Sorting is done as thus:
  - first, symbols that match exactly
  - then, alphabetical sort

Since the search can be a regexp, it is possible that more than one symbol
matches exactly. In this case, we can't decide which to sort first, so we
fallback to alphabeticall sort.

Explain this (new!) sorting heuristic in the documentation.

Reported-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Roland Eggner <edvx1@systemanalysen.net>
Cc: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>

--
Changes v1->v2:
  - drop the previous, complex heuristic in favour of a simpler heuristic
    that is both easier to understand, *and* to maintain (Jean)
  - explain sorting heuristic in the doc  (Jean)
2013-06-24 19:57:45 +02:00
Stephen Rothwell 40b313608a Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG
Ever since commit 45f035ab9b ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"),
it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG
turned off.  Remove all the remaining references to it.

Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03 14:20:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b9e306e07e Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull misc kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 "Non-critical kbuild changes:

   - make coccicheck improvements, but no new semantic patches this time

   - make rpm improvements

   - make tar-pkg change to include the architecture in the filename.

     This is a deliberate incompatibility, but nobody has complained so
     far and it is useful if you build for different architectures.  It
     also matches what the deb-pkg and rpm-pkg targets produce.

   - kbuild documentation fix"

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  rpm-pkg: Remove pointless set -e statements
  rpm-pkg: Always regenerate the specfile
  rpm-pkg: Do not write to the parent directory
  rpm-pkg: Do not package the whole source directory
  buildtar: Add ARCH to the archive name
  Coccinelle: Fix patch output when coccicheck is used with M= and C=
  Coccinelle: Add support to the SPFLAGS variable
  Coccinelle: Cleanup the setting of the FLAGS and OPTIONS variables
  Coccinelle: Restore coccicheck verbosity in ONLINE mode (C=1 or C=2)
  scripts/package/Makefile: compare objtree with srctree instead of test KBUILD_OUTPUT
  doc: change example to existing Makefile fragment
  scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for OFFSET and DEFINE
2013-05-07 07:59:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 685e56d294 Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
 - use pkg-config to detect curses libraries
 - clean up the way curses headers are searched
 - Some randconfig fixes, of which one had to be reverted
 - KCONFIG_SEED for randconfig debugging
 - memuconfig memory leak plugged
 - menuconfig > breadcrumbs > navigation
 - xconfig compilation fix
 - Other minor fixes

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: fix lists definition for C++
  Revert "kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG"
  kconfig: implement KCONFIG_PROBABILITY for randconfig
  kconfig: allow specifying the seed for randconfig
  kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG
  kconfig: do not override symbols already set
  kconfig: fix randconfig tristate detection
  kconfig/lxdialog: rationalise the include paths where to find {.n}curses{,w}.h
  menuconfig: Add "breadcrumbs" navigation aid
  menuconfig: Fix memory leak introduced by jump keys feature
  merge_config.sh: Avoid creating unnessary source softlinks
  kconfig: optionally use pkg-config to detect ncurses libs
  menuconfig: optionally use pkg-config to detect ncurses libs
2013-05-07 07:58:05 -07:00
Yann E. MORIN e43956e607 kconfig: implement KCONFIG_PROBABILITY for randconfig
Currently the odds to set each symbol is (rounded):
    booleans:   y: 50%          n: 50%
    tristates:  y: 33%  m: 33%  n: 33%

Introduce a KCONFIG_PROBABILITY environment variable to tweak the
probabilities (in percentage), as such:
    KCONFIG_PROBABILITY     y:n split           yⓂ️n split
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
[1] unset or empty          50  : 50            33  : 33  : 34
[2] N                        N  : 100-N         N/2 : N/2 : 100-N
    N:M                     N+M : 100-(N+M)      N  :  M  : 100-(N+M)
    N:M:L                    N  : 100-N          M  :  L  : 100-(M+L)

[1] The current behaviour is kept as default, for backward compatibility
[2] The solution initially implemented by Peter for Buildroot, see:
    http://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=3435c1afb5

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: add to Documentation/]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2013-04-25 00:16:30 +02:00
Yann E. MORIN 0d8024c6eb kconfig: allow specifying the seed for randconfig
For reproducibility, it can be useful to be able to specify the
seed to use to seed the RNG.

Add a new KCONFIG_SEED environment variable which can be set to
the seed to use:
    $ make KCONFIG_SEED=42 randconfig
    $ sha1sum .config
    70a128c8dcc61303069e1be352cce64114dfcbca  .config
    $ make KCONFIG_SEED=42 randconfig
    $ sha1sum .config
    70a128c8dcc61303069e1be352cce64114dfcbca  .config

It's very usefull for eg. debugging the kconfig parser.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2013-04-25 00:16:25 +02:00
Paul Bolle ff4eb04c88 doc: change example to existing Makefile fragment
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2013-04-08 13:00:29 +02:00
Antony Pavlov 5b83df2b46 kbuild: fix ld-option function
The kbuild's ld-option function is broken because
the command
  $(CC) /dev/null -c -o "$$TMPO"
does not create object file!

I have used a relatively old mips gcc 3.4.6 cross-compiler
and a relatively new gcc 4.7.2 to check this fact
but the results are the same.

EXAMPLE:
  $ rm /tmp/1.o
  $ mips-linux-gcc /dev/null -c -o /tmp/1.o
  mips-linux-gcc: /dev/null: linker input file unused because linking not done
  $ ls -la /tmp/1.o
  ls: cannot access /tmp/1.o: No such file or directory

We can easily fix the problem by adding
the '-x c' compiler option.

EXAMPLE:
  $ rm /tmp/1.o
  $ mips-linux-gcc -x c /dev/null -c -o /tmp/1.o
  $ ls -la /tmp/1.o
  -rw-r--r-- 1 antony antony 778 Apr  2 20:40 /tmp/1.o

Also fix wrong ld-option example.

Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2013-04-08 11:47:41 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 309667e53f Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kconfig changes from Michal Marek:
 "I forgot to send a pull request in time for the v3.8-rc1 merge window,
  so the list is a bit longer this time:

   - menuconfig enables extended colors in ncurses if the wide-character
     version is used.

   - CONFIG_ prefix can be specified in the environment to make life
     easier for people using kconfig multiple times in a single tree (no
     functional change in the kernel kconfig usage).

   - kconfig aborts on OOM.

   - inputboxes in menuconfig allow to move the cursor.

   - menuconfig has Save/Load buttons now.

   - xconfig build fix with new g++ and Qt3.

   - nconfig color scheme fix and help text update.

   - make oldconfig prints newlines when output is redirected.

   - some other minor fixes."

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: Fix missing '\n' for NEW symbols in yes "" | make oldconfig >conf.new
  kconfig: nconf: rewrite labels of function keys line
  kconfig: nconf: rewrite help texts
  kconfig: fix a compiliation error when using make xconfig
  nconf: function keys line, change background color for better readability
  menuconfig: Get rid of the top-level entries for "Load an Alternate/Save an Alternate"
  menuconfig: Add Save/Load buttons
  kconfig:lxdialog: remove duplicate code
  menuconfig:inputbox: support navigate input position
  kconfig: document use of CONFIG_ environment variable
  scripts/kconfig: ensure we use proper CONFIG_ prefix
  merge_config.sh: Add option to specify output dir
  Revert "kconfig-language: add to hints"
  kconfig: Regenerate lexer
  kconfig: Fix malloc handling in conf tools
  kconfig: get CONFIG_ prefix from the environment
  kconfig: add a function to get the CONFIG_ prefix
  kconfig: remove CONFIG_ from string constants
  menuconfig: fix extended colors ncurses support
2013-02-27 12:28:30 -08:00
Michal Marek e3900e74f2 Merge branch 'kbuild/rc-fixes' into kbuild/kconfig
There is one kconfig fix in the rc-fixes branch that I forgot to submit
for 3.8, so let's add it to the kconfig branch for 3.9-rc1.
2013-02-25 21:51:57 +01:00
Stephen Warren 22435f3833 kbuild: create a rule to run the pre-processor on *.dts files
Create cmd_dtc_cpp to run the C pre-processor on *.dts file before
passing them to dtc for final compilation. This allows the use of #define
and #include within the .dts file.

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2013-02-08 14:38:07 +00:00
Yann E. MORIN 169743264f kconfig: document use of CONFIG_ environment variable
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
2012-12-25 23:40:07 +01:00
Linus Torvalds a2013a13e6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...
2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
Yann E. MORIN 169dfd880a Revert "kconfig-language: add to hints"
This reverts commit 64b81ed7fb.

As Martin says about this paragraph:
    However, I can not reproduce this. The attached file contains both
    cases. [...] AFAICS, both versions behave equivalently. I suggest
    changing the documentation accordingly.

    [in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=134987006202410&w=2]

Reported-by: Martin Walch <walch.martin@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Walch <walch.martin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2012-12-06 11:34:55 +01:00
Stephen Warren 90b335fbbc kbuild: centralize .dts->.dtb rule
All architectures that use cmd_dtc do so in almost the same way. Create
a central build rule to avoid duplication. The one difference is that
most current uses of dtc build $(obj)/%.dtb from $(src)/dts/%.dts rather
than building the .dtb in the same directory as the .dts file. This
difference will be eliminated arch-by-arch in future patches.

MIPS is the exception here; it already uses the exact same rule as the
new common rule, so the duplicate is removed in this patch to avoid any
conflict. arch/mips changes courtesy of Ralf Baechle.

Update Documentation/kbuild to remove the explicit call to cmd_dtc from
the example, now that the rule exists in a centralized location.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: linux@lists.openrisc.net
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@ti.com>
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
2012-11-30 10:52:19 -06:00
Masanari Iida 4e79162a52 doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
Correct spelling typo in Documentations

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-19 14:28:24 +01:00
David Howells 40f1d4c200 UAPI: Remove the objhdr-y export list
Remove the objhdr-y export list as it is no longer used.  genhdr-y should be
used instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-02 18:01:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds da85d3426f Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kconfig changes from Michal Marek:

 - Error handling for make KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=<...> all*config plus a fix
   for a bug that was exposed by this

 - Fix for the script/config utility.

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  scripts/config: properly report and set string options
  kbuild: all{no,yes,mod,def,rand}config only read files when instructed to.
  kconfig: Add error handling to KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG
2012-05-28 10:37:56 -07:00