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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-05-04 17:11:24 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-05-04 17:11:24 -0700 |
commit | 10ea18f0deb2372417c8e5be4d2ec79de1f65c4b (patch) | |
tree | 927da44f6b841c1fd8b5c7f905cd5c44ee63b79a /Documentation | |
parent | eb28062f131b0a1da32b2554fd819af5221040de (diff) | |
parent | 2cb1e1257fb4d4d52c97e763ab262c2295aea4a8 (diff) |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-fixes:
kconfig-language.txt: remove bogus hint
kconfig: fix MAC OS X warnings in menuconfig
modpost: i2c aliases need no trailing wildcard
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt index 00b950d1c19..c412c245848 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt @@ -377,27 +377,3 @@ config FOO limits FOO to module (=m) or disabled (=n). - -Build limited by a third config symbol which may be =y or =m -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -A common idiom that we see (and sometimes have problems with) is this: - -When option C in B (module or subsystem) uses interfaces from A (module -or subsystem), and both A and B are tristate (could be =y or =m if they -were independent of each other, but they aren't), then we need to limit -C such that it cannot be built statically if A is built as a loadable -module. (C already depends on B, so there is no dependency issue to -take care of here.) - -If A is linked statically into the kernel image, C can be built -statically or as loadable module(s). However, if A is built as loadable -module(s), then C must be restricted to loadable module(s) also. This -can be expressed in kconfig language as: - -config C - depends on A = y || A = B - -or for real examples, use this command in a kernel tree: - -$ find . -name Kconfig\* | xargs grep -ns "depends on.*=.*||.*=" | grep -v orig - |