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Author SHA1 Message Date
Adrian Bunk
2cb1e1257f kconfig-language.txt: remove bogus hint
For the use case the hint describe a simple dependency is
enough.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2008-05-04 21:05:56 +02:00
Matthew Wilcox
dfecbec8b5 kconifg: 'select' considered less evil
While select should be used with care, it is not actually evil.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-28 22:59:31 +02:00
Richard Hacker
0d96fb20b7 kbuild: Add new Kbuild variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
This patch adds a new (Kbuild) Makefile variable KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS.
The space separated list of file names assigned to KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
is used when calling scripts/mod/modpost during stage 2 of the Kbuild
process for non-kernel-tree modules.

Signed-off-by: Richard Hacker <lerichi@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-04-25 20:45:26 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
9b3e4dad7e kconfig: document use of HAVE_*
It has been discussed on lkml several times but we need
it documented as this is new stuff.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:21:19 +01:00
Roman Zippel
93449082e9 kconfig: environment symbol support
Add the possibility to import a value from the environment into kconfig
via the option syntax. Beside flexibility this has the advantage
providing proper dependencies.
Documented the options syntax.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:14:39 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
0486bc9098 kconfig: add hints/tips/tricks to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
Add a section on kconfig hints: how to do <something> in Kconfig files.

Fix a few typos/spellos.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-01-28 23:14:37 +01:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
631bcfbbc5 kbuild: cc-cross-prefix spelling
Spelling fixes for cc-cross-prefix documentation

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-22 20:04:37 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
6e66b9005d kconfig: update kconfig-language text
Add kconfig-language docs for mainmenu, def_bool, and def_tristate.
Remove "requires" as a synonym of "depends on" since it was removed
from  the parser in commit 247537b9a2.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-19 21:48:36 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
910b40468a kbuild: introduce cc-cross-prefix
cc-cross-prefix is useful for the architecture that like
to provide a default CROSS_COMPILE value,
but may have several to select between.

Sample usage:

ifneq ($(SUBARCH),$(ARCH))
        ifeq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),)
               CROSS_COMPILE := $(call cc-cross-prefix, m68k-linux-gnu- m68k-linux-)
        endif
endif

Actual usage by the different archs will taken care of later.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-19 21:46:01 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
f77bf01425 kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
Introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y so we soon can
deprecate use of EXTRA_CFLAGS, EXTRA_AFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS.
This patch does not touch any in-tree users - thats next round.
Lets get this committed first and then fix the users of the
soon to be deprecated variants next.

The rationale behind this change is to introduce support for
makefile fragments like:

ccflags-$(CONFIG_WHATEVER_DEBUG) := -DDEBUG

As a replacement for the uglier:
ifeq ($(CONFIG_WHATEVER_DEBUG),y)
        EXTRA_CFLAGS := -DDEBUG
endif

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15 22:25:06 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
06c5040cdb kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPP
The variable CPPFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.

This patch replace use of CPPFLAGS with KBUILD_CPPFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CPPFLAGS=...
to specify additional CPP commandline options.

Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15 22:17:25 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
222d394d30 kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS
The variable AFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.

This patch replace use of AFLAGS with KBUILD_AFLAGS all over
the tree.

Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15 21:59:31 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
a0f97e06a4 kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC
The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by
kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour.
On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to
pass in additional flags to gcc.

This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the
tree and enabling one to use:
make CFLAGS=...
to specify additional gcc commandline options.

One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other
use cases has been requested too.

Patch was tested on following architectures:
alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k

Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check
that nothing got rebuild.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-14 22:21:35 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
5e54d5e5fb kbuild: kill EXTRA_ARFLAGS
EXTRA_ARFLAGS have never been used so no need to carry
around on this.
A google search did not reveal any external module
using this either.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-12 21:20:32 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
a9af33052c kbuild: fix documentation in makefiles.txt
Small error had sneaked in with respect to use
of LDFLAGS_$@. LDFLAGS_$@ is not valid in normal
kbuild files so do not say so.
Fix a reference bug too.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-12 21:20:32 +02:00
Jarek Poplawski
f8a745942b docs: note about select in kconfig-language.txt
A warning note from Sam Ravnborg about kconfig's select evilness,
dependencies and the future (slightly corrected).

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:47:41 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
7015030faf kbuild: document cc-fullversion
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 21:15:48 +02:00
Anton Blanchard
ded2e1640f kbuild: small documentation fix in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
The Makefile fragment in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt looks to be
missing some braces.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-02 20:58:09 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
5c811e59ad kbuild: more doc. cleanups
Fix typos/spellos in kbuild/makefiles.txt.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17 20:03:14 +01:00
Robert P. J. Day
bef1f40261 kconfig: Standardize "depends" -> "depends on" in Kconfig files
Standardize the miniscule percentage of occurrences of "depends" in
Kconfig files to "depends on", and update kconfig-language.txt to
reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-12-12 20:04:19 +01:00
Matt LaPlante
5d3f083d8f Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:21:10 +01:00
Daniel Walker
e95be9a532 [PATCH] docs: small kbuild cleanup
While reading this I noticed that the contents of this document list
section "3.8 Command line dependency" but it doesn't exist in the document.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:12 -07:00
Matt LaPlante
53cb47268e Fix typos in Documentation/: 'S'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letter 'S'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:55:17 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
99c8b9477f kbuild: trivial documentation fixes
Signed-off-by:  "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-10-01 11:52:59 +02:00
Andi Kleen
e2414910f2 [PATCH] x86: Detect CFI support in the assembler at runtime
... instead of using a CONFIG option. The config option still controls
if the resulting executable actually has unwind information.

This is useful to prevent compilation errors when users select
CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND on old binutils and also allows to use
CFI in the future for non kernel debugging applications.

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:30 +02:00