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Michal Marek
df835c2e7f kconfig: Document the new "visible if" syntax
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-05-02 17:31:52 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
d8ecc5cd8e kbuild: asm-generic support
There is an increasing amount of header files
shared between individual architectures in asm-generic.
To avoid a lot of dummy wrapper files that just
include the corresponding file in asm-generic provide
some basic support in kbuild for this.

With the following patch an architecture can maintain
a list of files in the file arch/$(ARCH)/include/asm/Kbuild

To use a generic file just add:

        generic-y += <name-of-header-file.h>

For each file listed kbuild will generate the necessary
wrapper in arch/$(ARCH)/include/generated/asm.

When installing userspace headers a wrapper is likewise created.

The original inspiration for this came from the unicore32
patchset - although a different method is used.

The patch includes several improvements from Arnd Bergmann.
Michael Marek contributed Makefile.asm-generic.

Remis Baima did an intial implementation along to achive
the same - see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/13352/

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <guanxuetao@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Tested-by: Guan Xuetao <guanxuetao@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Remis Lima Baima <remis.developer@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-04-28 18:01:41 +02:00
Michal Marek
40df759e2b kbuild: Fix build with binutils <= 2.19
The D option of ar is only available in newer versions.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-04-20 15:39:22 +02:00
Michal Marek
a8b8017c34 initramfs: Use KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP for generated entries
gen_init_cpio gets the current time and uses it for each symlink,
special file, and directory.  Grab the current time once and make it
possible to override it with the KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP variable for
reproducible builds.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-04-18 14:27:52 +02:00
Michal Marek
53e6892c04 kbuild: Allow to override LINUX_COMPILE_BY and LINUX_COMPILE_HOST macros
Make it possible to override the user@host string displayed during boot
and in /proc/version by the environment variables KBUILD_BUILD_USER and
KBUILD_BUILD_HOST. Several distributions patch scripts/mkcompile_h to
achieve this, so let's provide an official way. Also, document the
KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP variable while at it.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-04-18 14:26:55 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Linus Torvalds
eddecbb601 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  kbuild: Make DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH selectable, but not on by default
  genksyms: Regenerate lexer and parser
  genksyms: Track changes to enum constants
  genksyms: simplify usage of find_symbol()
  genksyms: Add helpers for building string lists
  genksyms: Simplify printing of symbol types
  genksyms: Simplify lexer
  genksyms: Do not paste the bison header file to lex.c
  modpost: fix trailing comma
  KBuild: silence "'scripts/unifdef' is up to date."
  kbuild: Add extra gcc checks
  kbuild: reenable section mismatch analysis
  unifdef: update to upstream version 2.5
2011-03-21 15:55:26 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
4a5838ad9d kbuild: Add extra gcc checks
Add a 'W=1' Makefile switch which adds additional checking per build
object.

The idea behind this option is targeted at developers who, in the
process of writing their code, want to do the occasional

make W=1 [target.o]

and let gcc do more extensive code checking for them. Then, they
could eyeball the output for valid gcc warnings about various
bugs/discrepancies which are not reported during the normal build
process.

For more background information and a use case, read through this
thread: http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=129802065918147&w=2

Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2011-03-09 15:35:35 +01:00
Gilles Espinasse
177b241d0e kbuild, mtd, net: a few comment typo fixes and rewording
Signed-off-by: Gilles Espinasse <g.esp@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-02-17 16:30:10 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
0bd2cbcdfa Merge branch 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6
* 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (29 commits)
  of/flattree: forward declare struct device_node in of_fdt.h
  ipmi: explicitly include of_address.h and of_irq.h
  sparc: explicitly cast negative phandle checks to s32
  powerpc/405: Fix missing #{address,size}-cells in i2c node
  powerpc/5200: dts: refactor dts files
  powerpc/5200: dts: Change combatible strings on localbus
  powerpc/5200: dts: remove unused properties
  powerpc/5200: dts: rename nodes to prepare for refactoring dts files
  of/flattree: Update dtc to current mainline.
  of/device: Don't register disabled devices
  powerpc/dts: fix syntax bugs in bluestone.dts
  of: Fixes for OF probing on little endian systems
  of: make drivers depend on CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF
  of/flattree: Add of_flat_dt_match() helper function
  of_serial: explicitly include of_irq.h
  of/flattree: Refactor unflatten_device_tree and add fdt_unflatten_tree
  of/flattree: Reorder unflatten_dt_node
  of/flattree: Refactor unflatten_dt_node
  of/flattree: Add non-boottime device tree functions
  of/flattree: Add Kconfig for EARLY_FLATTREE
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/sparc/prom/tree_32.c as per Grant.
2011-01-10 08:57:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e3166331a3 Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  Documentation/kbuild: add info that 'choice' can have a symbol name
  kbuild: add numeric --set-val option to scripts/config
  headers_check: Fix warning text
  headers_check: better search for functions in headers
  scripts/coccinelle: update for compatability with Coccinelle 0.2.4
  tags: put function prototypes back!
  Kconfig: fix single letter command in scripts/config
  gitignore: add scripts/recordmcount
2011-01-10 08:29:25 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
1693ed284f Merge branch 'packaging' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'packaging' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  deb-pkg: s/hdr/kernel_headers_/ && s/header/libc_headers_/
  deb-pkg: Make deb-pkg generate a seperate linux-libc-dev deb
  kbuild: create linux-headers package in deb-pkg
  kbuild, deb-pkg: support overriding userland architecture
  kbuild, deb-pkg: select userland architecture based on UTS_MACHINE
  kbuild, deb-pkg: Fix build with paranoid umask
2011-01-10 08:28:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
f28b1c8aaa Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  nconf: handle comment entries within choice/endchoice
  kconfig: fix warning
  kconfig: Make expr_copy() take a const argument
  kconfig: simplify select-with-unmet-direct-dependency warning
  kconfig: add more S_INT and S_HEX consistency checks
  kconfig: fix `zconfdebug' extern declaration
  kconfig/conf: merge duplicate switch's case
  kconfig: fix typos
  kbuild/gconf: add dummy inline for bind_textdomain_codeset()
  kbuild/nconf: fix spaces damage
  kconfig: nuke second argument of conf_write_symbol()
  kconfig: do not define AUTOCONF_INCLUDED
  kconfig: the day kconfig warns about "select"-abuse has come
2011-01-10 08:28:17 -08:00
Dirk Brandewie
aab94339cd of: Add support for linking device tree blobs into vmlinux
This patch adds support for linking device tree blob(s) into
vmlinux. Modifies asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h to add linking
.dtb sections into vmlinux. To maintain compatiblity with the of/fdt
driver code platforms MUST copy the blob to a non-init memory location
before the kernel frees the .init.* sections in the image.

Modifies scripts/Makefile.lib to add a kbuild command to
compile DTS files to device tree blobs and a rule to create objects to
wrap the blobs for linking.

STRUCT_ALIGNMENT is defined in vmlinux.lds.h for use in the rule to
create wrapper objects for the dtb in Makefile.lib.  The
STRUCT_ALIGN() macro in vmlinux.lds.h is modified to use the
STRUCT_ALIGNMENT definition.

The DTB's are placed on 32 byte boundries to allow parsing the blob
with driver/of/fdt.c during early boot without having to copy the blob
to get the structure alignment GCC expects.

A DTB is linked in by adding the DTB object to the list of objects to
be linked into vmlinux in the archtecture specific Makefile using
   obj-y += foo.dtb.o

Signed-off-by: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
[grant.likely@secretlab.ca: cleaned up whitespace inconsistencies]
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-12-23 14:43:00 -07:00
Yann E. MORIN
0719e1d23a Documentation/kbuild: add info that 'choice' can have a symbol name
Changeset 5a1aa8a1 added the possibility to name a choice,
and to have the same choice be defined multiple times.
But the documentation was forgotten, so this updates it accordingly.

Thanks to Arnaud Lacombe for pointing it to me in the first place:
  http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-kbuild/msg03940.html

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-12-21 18:15:43 +01:00
Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen
55f88eccf9 kbuild, deb-pkg: support overriding userland architecture
Usefull if building for sparc64 userland, because the
sparc and sparc64 userlands use the same 64-bit kernel,
making it impossible to always select the correct userland
architecture for the resulting debian package.

Might also be usefull, if you want a i386 userland with a amd64 kernel.

Example usage:
	make KBUILD_DEBARCH=i386 deb-pkg

LKML-reference: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1011051437500.13287@aurora.sdinet.de>
Signed-off-by: Asbjoern Sloth Toennesen <asbjorn@asbjorn.biz>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-12-20 16:52:31 +01:00
Arnaud Lacombe
a44a11e9a0 kconfig: the day kconfig warns about "select"-abuse has come
CC: catalin.marinas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-12-02 12:21:07 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
e596c79050 Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (39 commits)
  Revert "namespace: add source file location exceptions"
  Coccinelle: Add contextual message
  Coccinelle: Fix documentation
  Coccinelle: Find doubled arguments to boolean or bit operators.
  Coccinelle: Find nested lock+irqsave functions that use the same flags variables.
  namespace: add source file location exceptions
  scripts/extract-ikconfig: add support for bzip2, lzma and lzo
  kbuild: check return value of asprintf()
  scripts/namespace.pl: improve to get more correct results
  scripts/namespace.pl: some bug fixes
  scripts/namespace.pl: update file exclusion list
  scripts/namespace.pl: fix wrong source path
  Coccinelle: Use the -no_show_diff option for org and report mode
  Coccinelle: Add a new mode named 'chain'
  Coccinelle: Use new comment format to explain kfree.cocci
  Coccinelle: Improve user information with a new kind of comment
  Coccinelle: Update documentation
  MAINTAINERS: Coccinelle: Update email address
  Documentation/kbuild: modules.txt cleanup
  Documentation/kbuild: major edit of modules.txt sections 5-8
  ...
2010-10-28 16:18:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
51399a3919 Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (38 commits)
  kbuild: convert `arch/tile' to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade
  README: cite nconfig
  Revert "kconfig: Temporarily disable dependency warnings"
  kconfig: Use PATH_MAX instead of 128 for path buffer sizes.
  kconfig: Fix realloc usage()
  kconfig: Propagate const
  kconfig: Don't go out from read config loop when you read new symbol
  kconfig: fix menuconfig on debian lenny
  kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade
  kconfig: expand file names
  kconfig: use the file's name of sourced file
  kconfig: constify file name
  kconfig: don't emit warning upon rootmenu's prompt redefinition
  kconfig: replace KERNELVERSION usage by the mainmenu's prompt
  kconfig: delay gconf window initialization
  kconfig: expand by default the rootmenu's prompt
  kconfig: add a symbol string expansion helper
  kconfig: regen parser
  kconfig: implement the `mainmenu' directive
  kconfig: allow PACKAGE to be defined on the compiler's command-line
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/mn10300/Kconfig
2010-10-28 16:16:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c9e2a72ff1 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  initramfs: Fix build break on symbol-prefixed archs
  initramfs: fix initramfs size calculation
  initramfs: generalize initramfs_data.xxx.S variants
  scripts/kallsyms: Enable error messages while hush up unnecessary warnings
  scripts/setlocalversion: update comment
  kbuild: Use a single clean rule for kernel and external modules
  kbuild: Do not run make clean in $(srctree)
  scripts/mod/modpost.c: fix commentary accordingly to last changes
  kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
2010-10-28 15:13:55 -07:00
Michal Marek
b74b953b99 Merge commit 'v2.6.36' into kbuild/misc
Update to be able to fix a recent change to scripts/basic/docproc.c
(commit eda603f).
2010-10-28 00:15:57 +02:00
Michal Marek
239060b93b Merge branch 'kbuild/rc-fixes' into kbuild/kconfig
We need to revert the temporary hack in 71ebc01, hence the merge.
2010-10-12 15:09:06 +02:00
matt mooney
5793210cb1 Documentation/kbuild: modules.txt cleanup
A few modifications done for consistency, such as adding the shell
prompt for command line examples and trailing slash for directories.
Also corrects the module include header and fixes a few grammar
issues that I introduced.

Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-10-05 18:44:39 +02:00
matt mooney
9f02186c23 Documentation/kbuild: major edit of modules.txt sections 5-8
A follow-up to my edit of the first 4 sections.

Shift sections down by one due to the deletion of section 3; grammar
corrections along with some rewording; margin width cleanup; and
change EXTRA_CFLAGS -> ccflags-y.

Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-09-29 16:42:19 +02:00
matt mooney
efdf02cf06 Documentation/kbuild: major edit of modules.txt sections 1-4
Omit needless words and sentences; reorganize and tighten sentence structure;
swap sections 2.2 and 2.3 for a more logical flow; remove section 3, therefore
shifting 4->3; add to explanations; and add section on building multiple modules.

Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-09-29 16:42:19 +02:00
Arnaud Lacombe
8ea13e2c87 kconfig: implement the `mainmenu' directive
If specified, the directive must be placed at the top of the Kconfig file.

We need to change the grammar to make the mainmenu directive set the
`rootmenu' prompt. This reflect how menu_add_prompt() works internally, ie.
set the prompt of the `current_entry', pointing originally to `rootmenu'.

Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-09-19 18:19:39 -04:00
Michal Marek
60eab877a9 Merge branch 'kbuild/clean' into kbuild/kbuild 2010-09-13 17:20:59 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
7cfddeef35 kbuild: drop unifdef-y support
unifdef-y is not used anymore - drop remaining references

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2010-08-14 22:26:52 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
e4d6152b52 Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: (26 commits)
  kconfig: add savedefconfig
  kconfig: code refactoring in confdata.c
  kconfig: refactor code in symbol.c
  kconfig: add alldefconfig
  kconfig: print more info when we see a recursive dependency
  kconfig: save location of config symbols
  kconfig: change nonint_oldconfig to listnewconfig
  kconfig: rename loose_nonint_oldconfig => oldnoconfig
  kconfig: use long options in conf
  kconfig: fix MODULES-related bug in case of no .config
  kconfig: make randconfig fair for booleans
  kconfig: Don't write invisible choice values
  kbuild: Warn on selecting symbols with unmet direct dependencies
  scripts:conf.c Fix warning: variable 'type' set but not used
  menuconfig: truncate list items
  menuconfig: fix to center checklist correctly in a corner case
  xconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
  xconfig: remove unused function
  xconfig: clean up
  gconfig: fix null pointer warning
  ...
2010-08-05 14:12:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
da9e82b3b8 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
  modpost: support objects with more than 64k sections
  trivial: fix a typo in a filename
  frv: clean up arch/frv/Makefile
  kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL on the command line
  kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE on the command line
  Kbuild: Add option to set -femit-struct-debug-baseonly
  Makefile: "make kernelrelease" should show the correct full kernel version
  Makefile.build: make KBUILD_SYMTYPES work again
2010-08-05 14:10:07 -07:00
Nicolas Kaiser
c95940f264 Documentation: fix kbuild typos and wording
Fixed some typos and wording.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-05 13:21:24 -07:00
Matt Mooney
eb07e1b4ac Documentation: update kbuild make typos/grammar/text flow
Update section 3.7 examples to reflect the current state of the
Makefiles used. Fix spelling and grammar errors along with flow of text.

Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-05 13:21:24 -07:00
Matt Mooney
2f5a2f8184 Documentation: update kbuild make examples#2 to reflect changes
Update section 3.2 and 3.5 example, along with text in section 3.5
to reflect change.

Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-05 13:21:23 -07:00
Matt Mooney
4f82728027 Documentation: update kbuild loadable modules goals & examples
Update section 3.3 Loadable module goals - obj-m, from $(<module_name>-objs)
to $(<module_name>-y) for easier addition of conditional objects to the
module. The examples are also updated to reflect the current state of
each Makefile used.

Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-05 13:21:23 -07:00
Michal Marek
7a996d3ab1 Merge commit 'v2.6.35' into kbuild/kconfig
Conflicts:
	scripts/kconfig/Makefile
2010-08-04 14:05:07 +02:00
Michal Marek
772320e845 Merge commit 'v2.6.35' into kbuild/kbuild
Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/Makefile
2010-08-04 13:59:13 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
80c00ba942 kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL on the command line
It is now possible to assign options to AS and CC
on the command line - which is only used for built-in code.

{A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL was used both in the top-level Makefile
in the arch makefiles, thus users had no way to specify
additional options to AS, CC without overriding
the original value.

Introduce a new set of variables KBUILD_{A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL
that is used by arch specific files and free up
{A,C}FLAGS_KERNEL so they can be assigned on
the command line.

All arch Makefiles that used the old variables has been updated.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-08-03 14:09:45 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
6588169d51 kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE on the command line
It is now possible to assign options to AS, CC and LD
on the command line - which is only used when building modules.

{A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE was all used both in the top-level Makefile
in the arch makefiles, thus users had no way to specify
additional options to AS, CC, LD when building modules
without overriding the original value.

Introduce a new set of variables KBUILD_{A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE
that is used by arch specific files and free up
{A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE so they can be assigned on
the command line.

All arch Makefiles that used the old variables has been updated.

Note: Previously we had a MODFLAGS variable for both
AS and CC. But in favour of consistency this was dropped.
So in some cases arch Makefile has one assignmnet replaced by
two assignmnets.

Note2: MODFLAGS was not documented and is dropped
without any notice. I do not expect much/any breakage
from this.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin]
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> [avr32]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-08-03 14:09:45 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
0748cb3e1f kconfig: add alldefconfig
alldefconfig create a configuration with all values set
to their default value (form the Kconfig files).

This may be useful when we try to use more sensible default
values and may also be used in combination with
the minimal defconfigs.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-08-03 13:49:32 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1f73897861 Merge branch 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild
* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits)
  kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
  kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
  gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts
  menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
  gconfig: remove show_debug option
  gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype()
  kconfig: fix zconfdump()
  kconfig: some small fixes
  add random binaries to .gitignore
  kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file
  kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results
  .gitignore: ignore *.lzo files
  headerdep: perlcritic warning
  scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO
  kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install
  Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope"
  kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin
  headers_install: use local file handles
  headers_check: fix perl warnings
  export_report: fix perl warnings
  ...
2010-06-01 08:55:52 -07:00
Michal Marek
64ffc9ff42 kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
A more complete patch in the kernel-doc tree also contains this change.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-05-27 16:07:37 +02:00
Francis Galiegue
a33f32244d Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
Fix obvious cases of "it's" being used when "its" was meant.

Signed-off-by: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-04-23 02:09:52 +02:00
Li Zefan
4280eae099 kconfig: some small fixes
- fix a typo in documentation
- fix a typo in a printk on error
- fix comments in dialog_inputbox()

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-04-14 15:34:18 +02:00
Thomas Weber
8839316121 Fix typos in comments
[Ss]ytem => [Ss]ystem
udpate => update
paramters => parameters
orginal => original

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <swirl@gmx.li>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-03-16 11:47:56 +01:00
Michal Marek
ef8ff89b58 kbuild: Really don't clean bounds.h and asm-offsets.h
Commit 7d3cc8b tried to keep bounds.h and asm-offsets.h during make
clean by filtering these out of $(clean-files), but they are listed in
$(targets) and $(always) and thus removed automatically. Introduce a new
$(no-clean-files) variable to really skip such files in Makefile.clean.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-11 11:15:22 +01:00
John Kacur
bc75cc6b56 tags: Add the ability to make tags for all archs using "all"
make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS=all tags
- Document this in kbuild.txt
Without this change you have to type each arch separately.

Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-03 10:47:09 +01:00
Kirill Smelkov
e8d400a933 kbuild: fix a couple of typos in Documentation
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-02-17 14:19:20 +01:00
Michal Marek
bc081dd6e9 kbuild: generate modules.builtin
To make it easier for module-init-tools and scripts like mkinitrd to
distinguish builtin and missing modules, install a modules.builtin file
listing all builtin modules. This is done by generating an additional
config file (tristate.conf) with tristate options set to uppercase 'Y'
or 'M'. If we source that config file, the builtin modules appear in
obj-Y.

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:16 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
264a268380 kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2009-12-12 13:08:15 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
691ef3e7fd kbuild: introduce ld-option
ld-option is used to check if $(LD) supports a specific option.

Based on patch from Andi Kleen.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
First use is to check if option -X is supported (upcoming patch).
Theis is ne
2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
f86fd30660 kbuild: rename ld-option to cc-ldoption
ld-option is misnamed as it test options to gcc, not to ld.
Renamed it to reflect this.

Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:27:42 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
caa27b66bd kbuild: use INSTALLKERNEL to select customized installkernel script
Replace the use of CROSS_COMPILE to select a customized
installkernel script with the possibility to set INSTALLKERNEL
to select a custom installkernel script when running make:

    make INSTALLKERNEL=arm-installkernel install

With this patch we are now more consistent across
different architectures - they did not all support use
of CROSS_COMPILE.

The use of CROSS_COMPILE was a hack as this really belongs
to gcc/binutils and the installkernel script does not change
just because we change toolchain.

The use of CROSS_COMPILE caused troubles with an upcoming patch
that saves CROSS_COMPILE when a kernel is built - it would no
longer be installable.
[Thanks to Peter Z. for this hint]

This patch undos what Ian did in commit:

  0f8e2d62fa
  ("use ${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel in arch/*/boot/install.sh")

The patch has been lightly tested on x86 only - but all changes
looks obvious.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [blackfin]
Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> [arm]
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> [sh]
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> [x86]
Cc: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> [ia64]
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [m32r]
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> [m68k]
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [parisc]
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> [powerpc]
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [x86]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> [x86]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-09-20 12:18:14 +02:00
Markus Heidelberg
98f540d31b kconfig: resort the documentation of the environment variables
All the KCONFIG_ environment variables were previously located in a
section "Environment variables in 'menuconfig'", but neither are they
restricted to 'menuconfig' nor are they all used by 'menuconfig'.

Introduce the following three sections for these variables:
  * Environment variables for '*config'
  * Environment variables for '{allyes/allmod/allno/rand}config'
  * Environment variables for 'silentoldconfig'

Furthermore this puts MENUCONFIG_MODE next to MENUCONFIG_COLOR into a
common section "User interface options for 'menuconfig'".

Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-06-09 22:37:47 +02:00
David VomLehn
3e56f08bff kbuild/Documentation: Incorrect makefile syntax in example
There is an error in the make syntax for one of the kbuild examples

Signed-off-by: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-06-09 22:37:45 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
720097d895 kbuild: introduce subdir-ccflags-y
Following patch introduce support for setting options
to gcc that has effect for current directory and all
subdirectories.

The typical use case are an architecture or a subsystem that
decide to cover all files with -Werror.
Today alpha, mips and sparc uses -Werror in almost all their
Makefile- with subdir-ccflag-y it is now simpler to do so
as only the top-level directories needs to be covered.

Likewise if we decide to cover a full subsystem such
as net/ with -Werror this is done by adding a single
line to net/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-04-19 11:12:12 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
c7bb349e7c kbuild: introduce destination-y for exported headers
xtensa and arm have asked for a possibility to export headers
and locate them in a specific directory when exported.
Introduce destiantion-y to support this.

This patch in additiona adds some limited
documentation for the variables used for exported headers.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Oskar Schirmer <os@emlix.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
2009-04-11 08:18:08 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
df291fa993 kbuild: fix kbuild.txt typos
Fix typos in the new kbuild.txt file.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-14 21:42:51 +01:00
Wolfram Sang
baa91878ab kbuild: fix typos (s/bin_shipped/bin.o_shipped/) in Documentation
The text always mentions ...bin.o_shipped, just the example makefiles
actually use ...bin_shipped. It was corrected in one place some time
ago, these ones seem to have been forgotten.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-07 21:44:23 +01:00
Jike Song
4f628248a5 kbuild: reintroduce ALLSOURCE_ARCHS support for tags/cscope
This patch reintroduce the ALLSOURCE_ARCHS support for tags/TAGS/
cscope targets. The Kbuild previously has this feature, but after
moving the targets into scripts/tags.sh, ALLSOURCE_ARCHS disappears.

It's something like this:

	$ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS="x86 mips arm" tags cscope

Signed-off-by: Jike Song <albcamus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-07 21:44:21 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
acc08b516f kbuild: document environment variables
Add kbuild.txt to Documentation/kbuild
More stuff can be added later - at least we have
som of the varous environment variables documented now.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:25 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
2af238e455 kbuild: make *config usage docs
Create a kconfig user assistance guide, with a few tips and hints
about using menuconfig, xconfig, and gconfig.

Mostly contains user interface, environment variables, and search topics,
along with mini.config/custom.config usage.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-01-02 20:43:25 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
5410ecc0de kbuild: introduce $(kecho) convenience echo
There is a bunch of places in the build system where we do 'echo' to show
some nice status lines.  This means we still get output when running in
silent mode.  So declare a new KECHO variable that only does 'echo' when we
are in a suitable verbose build mode.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
[sam: added Documentation]
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2008-12-03 21:32:00 +01:00
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
Robert P. J. Day
2e99f3190f kbuild: fixup Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25 10:41:04 +02:00
Bryce Harrington
39e6e9cf90 kbuild: fix for some typos in Documentation/makefiles.txt
I noticed a few typos while reading makefiles.txt to learn about the
kbuild system.  Attached is a patch against 2.6.18 to fix them.
Remove trailing whitespace while we are there..

Signed-off-by:  Bryce Harrington <bryce@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25 10:21:52 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
a07f6033ca kbuild: linguistic fixes for Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
I have done a look-through through Documentation/kbuild/ and my corrections
(proposed) are attached.

Cc'ed are original author Michael (responsible for comitting changes to
these files?), Sam (kbuild maintainer), Adrian (-trivial maintainer).

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25 09:00:01 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
d9a7ff6646 kbuild: linguistic fixes for Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
I have done a look-through through Documentation/kbuild/ and my corrections
(proposed) are attached.

Cc'ed are original author Michael (responsible for comitting changes to
these files?), Sam (kbuild maintainer), Adrian (-trivial maintainer).

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25 09:00:01 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
83dcde4e1b kconfig: linguistic fixes for Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
I have done a look-through through Documentation/kbuild/ and my corrections
(proposed) are attached.

Cc'ed are original author Michael (responsible for comitting changes to
these files?), Sam (kbuild maintainer), Adrian (-trivial maintainer).

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25 09:00:01 +02:00
Roland McGrath
0b0bf7a3cc [PATCH] vDSO hash-style fix
The latest toolchains can produce a new ELF section in DSOs and
dynamically-linked executables.  The new section ".gnu.hash" replaces
".hash", and allows for more efficient runtime symbol lookups by the
dynamic linker.  The new ld option --hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} controls
whether to produce the old ".hash", the new ".gnu.hash", or both.  In some
new systems such as Fedora Core 6, gcc by default passes --hash-style=gnu
to the linker, so that a standard invocation of "gcc -shared" results in
producing a DSO with only ".gnu.hash".  The new ".gnu.hash" sections need
to be dealt with the same way as ".hash" sections in all respects; only the
dynamic linker cares about their contents.  To work with older dynamic
linkers (i.e.  preexisting releases of glibc), a binary must have the old
".hash" section.  The --hash-style=both option produces binaries that a new
dynamic linker can use more efficiently, but an old dynamic linker can
still handle.

The new section runs afoul of the custom linker scripts used to build vDSO
images for the kernel.  On ia64, the failure mode for this is a boot-time
panic because the vDSO's PT_IA_64_UNWIND segment winds up ill-formed.

This patch addresses the problem in two ways.

First, it mentions ".gnu.hash" in all the linker scripts alongside ".hash".
 This produces correct vDSO images with --hash-style=sysv (or old tools),
with --hash-style=gnu, or with --hash-style=both.

Second, it passes the --hash-style=sysv option when building the vDSO
images, so that ".gnu.hash" is not actually produced.  This is the most
conservative choice for compatibility with any old userland.  There is some
concern that some ancient glibc builds (though not any known old production
system) might choke on --hash-style=both binaries.  The optimizations
provided by the new style of hash section do not really matter for a DSO
with a tiny number of symbols, as the vDSO has.  If someone wants to use
=gnu or =both for their vDSO builds and worry less about that
compatibility, just change the option and the linker script changes will
make any choice work fine.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:43 -07:00
Theodore Ts'o
ac031f26e8 kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing them
Add option for stripping modules while installing them.

This function adds support for stripping modules while they are being
installed.  CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL (which will probably become more
popular as developers use kdump) causes the size of the installed
modules to grow by a factor of 9 or so.

Some kernel package systems solve this problem by stripping the debug
information from /lib/modules after running "make modules_install",
but that may not work for people who are installing directly into
/lib/modules --- root partitions that were sized to handle 16 megs
worth of modules may not be quite so happy with 145 megs of modules,
so the "make modules_install" never succeeds.

This patch allows such users to request modules_install to strip the
modules as they are installed.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-24 23:16:45 +02:00
Brian Gerst
a7d7cb3cd6 kbuild: fix garbled text in modules.txt
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-04 15:28:21 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
172c3ae3e6 kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files
As noted by Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> makefiles.txt told
one to use the name 'Kbuild' as preferred name for kbuild files.
This is not yet true so let makefiles.txt reflect reality.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-10 00:23:32 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
20a468b513 kbuild: make cc-version available in kbuild files
Move $(CC) support functions to Kbuild.include so they are available
in the kbuild files.
In addition the following was done:
	o as-option documented in Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
	o Moved documentation to new section to match
	  new scope of functions
	o added cc-ifversion used to conditionally select a text string
	  dependent on actual $(CC) version
	o documented cc-ifversion
	o change so Kbuild.include is read before the kbuild file

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:20 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
040fcc819a kbuild: improved modversioning support for external modules
With following patch a second option is enabled to obtain
symbol information from a second external module when a
external module is build.
The recommended approach is to use a common kbuild file but
that may be impractical in certain cases.
With this patch one can copy over a Module.symvers from one
external module to make symbols (and symbol versions) available
for another external module.

Updated documentation in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
06300b21f4 kbuild: support building individual files for external modules
Support building individual files when dealing with separate modules.
So say you have a module named "foo" which consist of two .o files bar.o
and fun.o.

You can then do:
make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` bar.o
make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` bar.lst
make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` bar.i
make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` /            <= will build all .o files
                                           and link foo.o
make -C $KERNELSRC M=`pwd` foo.ko       <= will build the module
                                           and do the modpost step
					   to create foo.ko

The above will also work if the external module is placed in a
subdirectory using a hirachy of kbuild files.
Thanks to Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> for initial feature
request / bug report.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:17 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
ad14336de8 kbuild: remove GCC_VERSION
This was causing some ordering problems.  Remove the up-front evaluation
and just revaluate the compiler version each time we need it.

(The up-front evaluation was problematic because some architectures modify
the value of $(CC)).

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-01-08 19:58:51 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
253dfa6e46 kbuild: document howto build external modules using several directories
Update modules.txt with info how to build external modules
with files in several directories.
The question popped up on lkml often enough to warrant this,
let's see if people read this stuff - or google hits it.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-01-06 20:33:41 +01:00
Brian Strand
98a1e44411 kbuild: patch to Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
First off, thanks for the kbuild docs, they are very useful!  Second,
I've attached a patch to modules.txt (from 2.6.14.2) with a "compile"
fix to a Makefile example, and some trivial spelling/grammar nits.
Please let me know if you want the patch in some other format (eg not
MIME), or if I should go bother someone else about it.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-12-16 23:15:41 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
5bb7826900 kbuild: rename prepare to archprepare to fix dependency chain
When introducing the generic asm-offsets.h support the dependency
chain for the prepare targets was changed. All build scripts expecting
include/asm/asm-offsets.h to be made when using the prepare target would broke.
With the limited number of prepare targets left in arch Makefiles
the trivial solution was to introduce a new arch specific target: archprepare

The dependency chain looks like this now:

prepare
  |
  +--> prepare0
         |
         +--> archprepare
                |
		+--> scripts_basic
                +--> prepare1
                       |
                       +---> prepare2
                               |
                               +--> prepare3

So prepare 3 is processed before prepare2 etc.
This guaantees that the asm symlink, version.h, scripts_basic
are all updated before archprepare is processed.

prepare0 which build the asm-offsets.h file will need the
actions performed by archprepare.

The head target is now named prepare, because users scripts will most
likely use that target, but prepare-all has been kept for compatibility.
Updated Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-11 22:30:22 +02:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
49490571bc [PATCH] kbuild: describe Kbuild pitfall
Whitespace is significant for make, and I just fought against this... so
please apply this patch.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-28 22:58:21 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00