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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-17 07:23:42 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-17 07:23:42 -0800
commit5a865c0606eb44d5d12cabb429751c83712183de (patch)
tree726d6eaf3b20f30900304bd0cbb6339b423a071f /Documentation
parent331d9d5958277de27e6ce42247e1cbec54fd1c7e (diff)
parent46e75f66677f5094bb51e91f9473128c4e907c7d (diff)
Merge branch 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild
* 'for-33' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (29 commits) net: fix for utsrelease.h moving to generated gen_init_cpio: fixed fwrite warning kbuild: fix make clean after mismerge kbuild: generate modules.builtin genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}() score: add asm/asm-offsets.h wrapper unifdef: update to upstream revision 1.190 kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope kbuild: create include/generated in silentoldconfig scripts/package: deb-pkg: use fakeroot if available scripts/package: add KBUILD_PKG_ROOTCMD variable scripts/package: tar-pkg: use tar --owner=root Kbuild: clean up marker net: add net_tstamp.h to headers_install kbuild: move utsrelease.h to include/generated kbuild: move autoconf.h to include/generated drop explicit include of autoconf.h kbuild: move compile.h to include/generated kbuild: drop include/asm kbuild: do not check for include/asm-$ARCH ... Fixed non-conflicting clean merge of modpost.c as per comments from Stephen Rothwell (modpost.c had grown an include of linux/autoconf.h that needed to be changed to generated/autoconf.h)
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dontdiff1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt8
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dontdiff b/Documentation/dontdiff
index e151b2a3626..3ad6acead94 100644
--- a/Documentation/dontdiff
+++ b/Documentation/dontdiff
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ gconf
gen-devlist
gen_crc32table
gen_init_cpio
+generated
genheaders
genksyms
*_gray256.c
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index bb3bf38f03d..6f8c1cabbc5 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+Output files
+
+modules.order
+--------------------------------------------------
+This file records the order in which modules appear in Makefiles. This
+is used by modprobe to deterministically resolve aliases that match
+multiple modules.
+
+modules.builtin
+--------------------------------------------------
+This file lists all modules that are built into the kernel. This is used
+by modprobe to not fail when trying to load something builtin.
+
+
Environment variables
KCPPFLAGS
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
index 849b5e56d06..49efae70397 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -103,10 +103,16 @@ KCONFIG_AUTOCONFIG
This environment variable can be set to specify the path & name of the
"auto.conf" file. Its default value is "include/config/auto.conf".
+KCONFIG_TRISTATE
+--------------------------------------------------
+This environment variable can be set to specify the path & name of the
+"tristate.conf" file. Its default value is "include/config/tristate.conf".
+
KCONFIG_AUTOHEADER
--------------------------------------------------
This environment variable can be set to specify the path & name of the
-"autoconf.h" (header) file. Its default value is "include/linux/autoconf.h".
+"autoconf.h" (header) file.
+Its default value is "include/generated/autoconf.h".
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