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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-15 14:08:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-15 14:08:15 -0800
commitd72681d7c61f32a89147b8867cfb80e4ea119972 (patch)
tree2a83f714290065a9696d59f9f286887f134cfbe7 /Documentation
parent762fb1ddd561aac5b14afac19287672b99242811 (diff)
parente125096e733e966e055ee6033169f68233f9bf9c (diff)
Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kconfig changes from Michal Marek: - xconfig stores its setting in a meaningful path (~/.config/kernel.org/qconf.conf) - kconfig symbol search fix - documentation fixes - cleanup & comment update - fix warning when a kconfig symbol is defined with two different types - Yann is now officially listed as maintainer of kconfig, but he prefers me to send pull requests for now * 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: MAINTAINERS: New kconfig maintainer xconfig: Fix the filename for GUI settings kconfig: fix bug in search results string: use strlen(gstr->s), not gstr->len kconfig: remove unused definition from scanner kconfig: adjust warning message for conflicting types kconfig: fix trivial typos and update mconf documentation kconfig: add short explanation to SYMBOL_WRITE Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt: 'make listnewconfig' replaces: yes "" | make oldconfig
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt11
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
index 8ef6dbb6a46..bbc99c0c109 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -20,16 +20,9 @@ symbols have been introduced.
To see a list of new config symbols when using "make oldconfig", use
cp user/some/old.config .config
- yes "" | make oldconfig >conf.new
+ make listnewconfig
-and the config program will list as (NEW) any new symbols that have
-unknown values. Of course, the .config file is also updated with
-new (default) values, so you can use:
-
- grep "(NEW)" conf.new
-
-to see the new config symbols or you can use diffconfig to see the
-differences between the previous and new .config files:
+and the config program will list any new symbols, one per line.
scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | less