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Linus Torvalds 5969d1bb30 Merge branch 'gperf-removal'
Remove our use of 'gperf' for generating perfect hashes from some of our
build tools.

This removal was prompted by Masahiro Yamada sending out a patch that
removes all our pre-generated files, and when I tested it, I noticed
that the gperf version I have (3.1) apparently generates code that no
longer works with out code-base because the function interfaces
generated by gperf have changed.

We really don't care that much, and the gperf people changed their
interfaces in ways that makes it annoying to work with them.  Tools that
make it hard to use them should not be used, and the kernel is not at
all interested in some autoconf mess.  So remove the gperf dependency
entirely.

It turns out that if you ignore the pre-generated files, the use of
gperf apparently saved us a whopping fifteen lines of code.  It
obviously wasn't worth it, considering that the pre-generated files are
about 500 lines.

I sent this out as a patch about three weeks ago, and got absolutely
zero responses.  So let's see if anybody notices now that I merge it.
Because there might be serious bugs here, but it WorksForMe(tm).

* gperf-removal:
  Remove gperf usage from toolchain
2017-09-07 21:39:15 -07:00
arch - For the randstruct plugin, enable automatic randomization of structures 2017-09-07 20:30:19 -07:00
block SCSI misc on 20170907 2017-09-07 21:11:05 -07:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - get_page upon reassignment to TX SGL 2017-08-22 15:03:27 +08:00
Documentation Merge branch 'gperf-removal' 2017-09-07 21:39:15 -07:00
drivers SCSI misc on 20170907 2017-09-07 21:11:05 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs This series has the ultimate goal of providing a sane stack rlimit when 2017-09-07 20:35:29 -07:00
include SCSI misc on 20170907 2017-09-07 21:11:05 -07:00
init Merge branch 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2017-09-06 21:33:12 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-08-21 09:45:19 +02:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk 2017-09-07 21:00:52 -07:00
lib Merge tag 'md/4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md 2017-09-07 12:41:48 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'for-4.14/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-09-07 11:59:42 -07:00
net Merge branch 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2017-09-06 22:25:25 -07:00
samples media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
scripts Merge branch 'gperf-removal' 2017-09-07 21:39:15 -07:00
security audit/stable-4.14 PR 20170907 2017-09-07 20:48:25 -07:00
sound - New Drivers 2017-09-07 13:51:13 -07:00
tools powerpc updates for 4.14 2017-09-07 10:15:40 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2 2017-08-31 16:13:00 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS SCSI misc on 20170907 2017-09-07 21:11:05 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux 2017-09-03 21:07:29 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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