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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/coccinelle.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 23 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 |
4 files changed, 15 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt index cf44eb6499b..dffa2d620d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt +++ b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt @@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ As any static code analyzer, Coccinelle produces false positives. Thus, reports must be carefully checked, and patches reviewed. +To enable verbose messages set the V= variable, for example: + + make coccicheck MODE=report V=1 + Using Coccinelle with a single semantic patch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt index a686f9cd69c..c858f8419eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt @@ -388,26 +388,3 @@ config FOO depends on BAR && m limits FOO to module (=m) or disabled (=n). - -Kconfig symbol existence -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The following two methods produce the same kconfig symbol dependencies -but differ greatly in kconfig symbol existence (production) in the -generated config file. - -case 1: - -config FOO - tristate "about foo" - depends on BAR - -vs. case 2: - -if BAR -config FOO - tristate "about foo" -endif - -In case 1, the symbol FOO will always exist in the config file (given -no other dependencies). In case 2, the symbol FOO will only exist in -the config file if BAR is enabled. diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt index a09f1a6a830..b8b77bbc784 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt @@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG If you set KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG in the environment, Kconfig will not break symlinks when .config is a symlink to somewhere else. +CONFIG_ +-------------------------------------------------- +If you set CONFIG_ in the environment, Kconfig will prefix all symbols +with its value when saving the configuration, instead of using the default, +"CONFIG_". + ______________________________________________________________________ Environment variables for '{allyes/allmod/allno/rand}config' diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 1da94654877..e567af39ee3 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -564,6 +564,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. UART at the specified I/O port or MMIO address, switching to the matching ttyS device later. The options are the same as for ttyS, above. + hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for + both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors. If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance @@ -757,6 +759,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. earlyprintk= [X86,SH,BLACKFIN] earlyprintk=vga + earlyprintk=xen earlyprintk=serial[,ttySn[,baudrate]] earlyprintk=ttySn[,baudrate] earlyprintk=dbgp[debugController#] @@ -774,6 +777,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. The VGA output is eventually overwritten by the real console. + The xen output can only be used by Xen PV guests. + ekgdboc= [X86,KGDB] Allow early kernel console debugging ekgdboc=kbd |