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Fix bug 7401.
Handle more than one source dir or file list to the initramfs gen scripts.
The Kconfig help for INITRAMFS_SOURCE claims that you can specify multiple
space-separated sources in order to allow unprivileged users to build an
image. There are two bugs in the current implementation that prevent this
from working.
First, we pass "file1 dir2" to the gen_initramfs_list.sh script, which it
obviously can't open.
Second, gen_initramfs_list.sh -l outputs multiple definitions for
deps_initramfs -- one for each argument.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Prevent git from reporting this useless status:
On branch refs/heads/master
Untracked files:
(use "git add" to add to commit)
TAGS
scripts/kconfig/lkc_defs.h
scripts/kconfig/qconf.moc
nothing to commit
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Correct a few comments in kernel-doc Doc and source files.
(akpm: note: the patch removes a non-ascii character and might have to be
applied by hand..)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch adds support for feature fixups in modules. This involves
adding support for R_PPC64_REL64 relocs to the 64 bits module loader.
It also modifies modpost.c to ignore the powerpc fixup sections (or it
would warn when used in .init.text).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Some people want to do crazy things like pass multiple directories as the
value of $(SUBDIRS) or $M. Mostly this kinda works, except that
Makefile.modpost constructs a modpost commandline which fails modpost's
argument parsing. This patch fixes that little wrinkle.
Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix this:
make[3]: *** No rule to make target
`/mnt/md0/devel/linux-git/include/linux/version.h', needed by
`/mnt/md0/devel/linux-git-obj/usr/include/linux/version.h'. Stop.
make[2]: *** [linux] Error 2
make[1]: *** [headers_install] Error 2
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- In parameter descriptions, strip all whitespace between the parameter
name (e.g., @len) and its description so that the description is
indented uniformly in text and man page modes. Previously, spaces
or tabs (which are used for cleaner source code viewing) affected
the produced output in a negative way.
Before (man mode):
to Destination address, in user space.
from Source address, in kernel space.
n Number of bytes to copy.
After (man mode):
to Destination address, in user space.
from Source address, in kernel space.
n Number of bytes to copy.
- Fix/clarify a few function description comments.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Drop __inline, __always_inline, and noinline in the produced kernel-doc
output, similar to other pseudo directives.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c fails to build because it uses
true/false without including stdbool.h:
kronos:~/src/linux-2.6$ make O=../linux-build-git menuconfig
GEN /home/kronos/src/linux-build/Makefile
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c: In function 'set_classic_theme':
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:68: error: 'true' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:68: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:68: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:70: error: 'false' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c: In function 'set_blackbg_theme':
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:101: error: 'true' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:102: error: 'false' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c: In function 'set_bluetitle_theme':
/home/kronos/src/linux-2.6/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c:144: error: 'true' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
Add <stdbool.h> to dialog.h to fix the breakage.
Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Don't require that scripts/hdrcheck.sh be executable - shit happens...
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This is obviously copied from some lines before without proper fixing.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
kbuild: trivial documentation fixes
kconfig: fix saving alternate kconfig file in parent dir
kbuild: make modpost processing configurable
kconfig/menuconfig: do not let ncurses clutter screen on exit
kconfig/lxdialog: clear long menu lines
kbuild: do not build mconf & lxdialog unless needed
kconfig/lxdialog: fix make mrproper
kconfig/lxdialog: support resize
kconfig/lxdialog: let <ESC><ESC> behave as expected
kconfig/menuconfig: lxdialog is now built-in
kconfig/lxdialog: add a new theme bluetitle which is now default
kconfig/lxdialog: add support for color themes and add blackbg theme
kconfig/lxdialog: refactor color support
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This seems to have been missed when unifdef went in
via Sam's tree..
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This fixes bugzilla entry: 7182
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7182
With this patch we no longer append the directory part twice
before saving the config file.
This patch has been sent to Roman Zippel for review with no feedback.
It is so obviously simple that this should be OK to apply it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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On request from Al Viro make modpost processing configurable.
KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to make modpost warn instead of
error out in case on unresolved symbols in final module link.
KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL can be set to avoid the final and timeconsuming
.c file generation and link of .ko files. This is solely useful for
speeding up when doing compile checks with for example allmodconfig
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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The driver for /proc/config.gz consumes rather a lot of memory and it is in
fact possible to build it as a module.
In some ways this is a bit risky, because the .config which is used for
compiling kernel/configs.c isn't necessarily the same as the .config which was
used to build vmlinux.
But OTOH the potential memory savings are decent, and it'd be fairly dumb to
build your configs.o with a different .config.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Do not initialize ncurses twice - it causes unpredicable
results. My display was sometimes weird after running
make menuconfig and I had to execute 'reset' to properly
restore my display.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Menulines that were wider than the available
line width is now properly null terminated.
While at it renamed the variable choice => line_y
so it better reflect the usage in do_print_item().
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Due to a limitation in kbuild all objects referred
by xxx-y or xxx-objs will be build when one of
the targets needs to e build.
This caused lxdialog to be build pulling in ncurses
that is not always available.
So avoid building mconf & lxdialog unless really needed.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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No Makefile in scripts/kconfig/lxdialog anymore, so do not
go there during make mrproper.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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In all dialogs now properly catch KEY_RESIZE and take proper action.
In mconf try to behave sensibly when a dialog routine returns
-ERRDISPLAYTOOSMALL.
The original check for a screnn size of 80x19 is kept for now.
It may make sense to remove it later, but thats anyway what
much text is adjusted for.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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<ESC><ESC> is used to step one back in the dialogs.
When lxdialog became built-in pressing <ESC> once would cause one step back
and pressing <ESC><ESC> would cause two steps back.
This patch - based on concept from Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> -
makes one <ESC> a noop and pressing <ESC><ESC> will cause one step backward.
In addition the final yes/no dialog now has the option to go back to the
the kernel configuration. So if you get too far out you can now go back
to configuring the kernel without saving and starting all over again.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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lxdialog was previously called as an external program causing screen
to flicker when used. With this patch lxdialog is now built-in.
It is loosly based om previous work by: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Following is a list of changes:
o Moved build of dialog routings to kconfig Makefile
o menubox + checklist uses a new item list to hold all menu items
o in util.c implmented helper function to deal with item list
o menubox now uses parameters to save scroll state (avoids temp file)
o textbox now get text to be displayed as parameter and not a file
o make sure to properly delete subwin's before main windows
o killed unused files: lxdialog.c msgbox.c
o modified return value for ESC to match direct calling
o in a few places the code has been adjusted to 80 char wide
o in textbox a small refactoring was made to make code remotely readable
o in mconf removed all unused stuff (functions/variables)
Following is a list of know short comings:
a) pressing ESC twice will be interpreted as two ESC presses
b) resize does not work. menuconfig needs to be restarted to be adjusted
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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The bluetitle theme is a slightly modified version of the colorscheme
that -mm users has been used to. The bluetitle is more readable especially
on some LCD screens so it is now default.
Anyone that really wants the old color selection can get it by selecting
the classic color theme:
make MENUCONFIG_COLOR=classic menuconfig
The bluetitle theme was modified by Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
to further improve readability on LCD screens.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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The blackbg theme was originally made by: Han Boetes
It was copied from a patch by "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
which was also the inspiration source for the color theme support.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Clean up and refactor color support. All color support are now
in util.c including color definitions.
In the process introduced a global variable named 'dlg' which is
used all over to set color - thats the reason why all files are changed.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Adds a missing exit, if the file that should be parsed couldn't be opened.
Without it crashes with a segfault, cause the filedescriptor is accessed
even if the file could not be opened.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add modalias attribute support for the almost forgotten now EISA bus and
(at least some) EISA-aware modules.
The modalias entry looks like (for an 3c509 NIC):
eisa:sTCM5093
and the in-module alias like:
eisa:sTCM5093*
The patch moves struct eisa_device_id declaration from include/linux/eisa.h
to include/linux/mod_devicetable.h (so that the former now #includes the
latter), adds proper MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(eisa, ...) statements for all
drivers with EISA IDs I found (some drivers already have that DEVICE_TABLE
declared), and adds recognision of __mod_eisa_device_table to
scripts/mod/file2alias.c so that proper modules.alias will be generated.
There's no support for /lib/modules/$kver/modules.eisamap, as it's not used
by any existing tools, and because with in-kernel modalias mechanism those
maps are obsolete anyway.
The rationale for this patch is:
a) to make EISA bus to act as other busses with modalias
support, to unify driver loading
b) to foget about EISA finally - with this patch, kernel
(who still supports EISA) will be the only one who knows
how to choose the necessary drivers for this bus ;)
[akpm@osdl.org: fix the kbuild bit]
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-the-net-bits-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-the-tulip-bit-by: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Current gcc generates calls not jumps to noreturn functions. When that happens the
return address can point to the next function, which confuses the unwinder.
This patch works around it by marking asynchronous exception
frames in contrast normal call frames in the unwind information. Then teach
the unwinder to decode this.
For normal call frames the unwinder now subtracts one from the address which avoids
this problem. The standard libgcc unwinder uses the same trick.
It doesn't include adjustment of the printed address (i.e. for the original
example, it'd still be kernel_math_error+0 that gets displayed, but the
unwinder wouldn't get confused anymore.
This only works with binutils 2.6.17+ and some versions of H.J.Lu's 2.6.16
unfortunately because earlier binutils don't support .cfi_signal_frame
[AK: added automatic detection of the new binutils and wrote description]
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Add a feature check that checks that the gcc compiler has stack-protector
support and has the bugfix for PR28281 to make this work in kernel mode.
The easiest solution I could find was to have a shell script in scripts/
to do the detection; if needed we can make this fancier in the future
without making the makefile too complex.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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... instead of using a CONFIG option. The config option still controls
if the resulting executable actually has unwind information.
This is useful to prevent compilation errors when users select
CONFIG_STACK_UNWIND on old binutils and also allows to use
CFI in the future for non kernel debugging applications.
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Cc: sam@ravnborg.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/khdrs-2.6:
New 'make headers_install_all' target.
Use dependencies for 'make headers_install'.
[S390] Unexport <asm/z90crypt.h>, export <asm/zcrypt.h> in its place.
Remove dead netfilter_logging.h from include/linux/Kbuild
Remove offsetof() from user-visible <linux/stddef.h>
Clean up exported headers on CRIS
Fix v850 exported headers
Don't advertise (or allow) headers_{install,check} where inappropriate.
Remove UML header export
Remove ARM26 header export.
Fix H8300 exported headers.
Fix m68knommu exported headers
Fix exported headers for SPARC, SPARC64
Fix 'make headers_check' on m32r
Fix 'make headers_check' on sh64
Fix 'make headers_check' on sh
[HEADERS] Fix ARM 'make headers_check'
Initial pass of manual conflict resolution in top-level Makefile over
conflicting build rule and headers_install changes.
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"mkdir -p" does not only mean not to complain if the directory already
exists, but also to create the parent directories if needed. This patch
removes "lib" from the list of directories to create as we will also create
"lib/modules".
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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At stage 2 modpost utility is used to check modules. In case of unresolved
symbols modpost only prints warning.
IMHO it is a good idea to fail compilation process in case of unresolved
symbols (at least in modules coming with kernel), since usually such errors
are left unnoticed, but kernel modules are broken.
- new option '-w' is added to modpost:
if option is specified, modpost only warns about unresolved symbols
- modpost is called with '-w' for external modules in Makefile.modpost
Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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hostprogs-y only supported creating output directory for the final
program. Extend this to also cover the situation where a .o
file (used when host program is made from compositie objects) is
locate in another directory.
First user of this is the built-in lxdialog that.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Noticed by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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tell why a a target got build
enabled by make V=2
Output (listed in the order they are checked):
(1) - due to target is PHONY
(2) - due to target missing
(3) - due to: file1.h file2.h
(4) - due to command line change
(5) - due to missing .cmd file
(6) - due to target not in $(targets)
(1) We always build PHONY targets
(2) No target, so we better build it
(3) Prerequisite is newer than target
(4) The command line stored in the file named dir/.target.cmd
differed from actual command line. This happens when compiler
options changes
(5) No dir/.target.cmd file (used to store command line)
(6) No dir/.target.cmd file and target not listed in $(targets)
This is a good hint that there is a bug in the kbuild file
This patch is inspired by a patch from: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Based on patch from: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
This has the advantage that all section mismatch checks are run regardless
of modules being enabled or not.
When running modpost on vmlinux output:
MODPOST vmlinux
When running modpost on modules output count of modules like this:
MODPOST 5 modules
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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The modpost code is extended to ignore references
from ".pci_fixup" to ".init.text".
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
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Let headers_install use in-kernel unifdef
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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This patch contains a raw copy of unifdef.c
Next patch will modify it and add infrastructure to use it
Adding unifdef to the kernel is acked by the author.
The reason to add unifdef as part of the kernel source is that it is not
yet a common utility on most distributions.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Consistently decide when to rebuild a target across all of
if_changed, if_changed_dep, if_changed_rule.
PHONY targets are now treated alike (ignored) for all targets
While add it make Kbuild.include almost readable by factoring out a few
bits to some common variables and reuse this in Makefile.build.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Kconfig doesn't currently handle config files with DOS line endings.
While these are, of course, an abomination, etc, etc, it can be handy
to not have to convert them first. It's also a tiny patch and even adds
support for lines ending in just \r or even \n\r.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Re-export header files only if either they or their controlling Kbuild
file has actually changed. Also allow for similar dependencies with
'headers_check', once we properly create the dependencies for those.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (44 commits)
[S390] hypfs crashes with invalid mount option.
[S390] cio: subchannel evaluation function operates without lock
[S390] cio: always query all paths on path verification.
[S390] cio: update path groups on logical CHPID changes.
[S390] cio: subchannels in no-path state.
[S390] Replace nopav-message on VM.
[S390] set modalias for ccw bus uevents.
[S390] Get rid of DBG macro.
[S390] Use alternative user-copy operations for new hardware.
[S390] Make user-copy operations run-time configurable.
[S390] Cleanup in signal handling code.
[S390] Cleanup in page table related code.
[S390] Linux API for writing z/VM APPLDATA Monitor records.
[S390] xpram off by one error.
[S390] Remove kexec experimental flag.
[S390] cleanup appldata.
[S390] fix typo in vmcp.
[S390] Kernel stack overflow handling.
[S390] qdio slsb processing state.
[S390] Missing initialization in common i/o layer.
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (114 commits)
[POWERPC] Fix ohare IDE irq workaround on old powermacs
[POWERPC] EEH: Power4 systems sometimes need multiple resets.
[POWERPC] Include <asm/mmu.h> in arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.h for phys_addr_t.
[POWERPC] Demacrofy arch/powerpc/platforms/maple/pci.c
[POWERPC] Maple U3 HT - reject inappropriate config space access
[POWERPC] Fix IPIC pending register assignments
[POWERPC] powerpc: fix building gdb against asm/ptrace.h
[POWERPC] Remove DISCONTIGMEM cruft from page.h
[POWERPC] Merge iSeries i/o operations with the rest
[POWERPC] 40x: Fix debug status register defines
[POWERPC] Fix compile error in sbc8560
[POWERPC] EEH: support MMIO enable recovery step
[POWERPC] EEH: enable MMIO/DMA on frozen slot
[POWERPC] EEH: code comment cleanup
[POWERPC] EEH: balance pcidev_get/put calls
[POWERPC] PPC: Fix xmon stack frame address in backtrace
[POWERPC] Add AT_PLATFORM value for Xilinx Virtex-4 FX
[POWERPC] Start arch/powerpc/boot code reorganization
[POWERPC] Define of_read_ulong helper
[POWERPC] iseries: eliminate a couple of warnings
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Add a bus for the adjunct processor interface. Up to 64 devices can
be connect to the ap bus interface, each device with 16 domains. That
makes 1024 message queues. The interface is asynchronous, the answer
to a message sent to a queue needs to be received at some later point
in time. Unfortunately the interface does not provide interrupts when
a message reply is pending. So the ap bus needs to implement some
fancy polling, each active queue is polled once per 1/HZ second or
continuously if an idle cpus exsists and the poll thread is activ
(see poll_thread parameter).
The ap bus uses the sysfs path /sys/bus/ap and has two bus attributes,
ap_domain and config_time. The ap_domain selects one of the 16 domains
to be used for this system. This limits the maximum number of ap devices
to 64. The config_time attribute contains the number of seconds between
two ap bus scans to find new devices.
The ap bus uses the modalias entries of the form "ap:tN" to autoload
the ap driver for hardware type N. Currently known types are:
3 - PCICC, 4 - PCICA, 5 - PCIXCC, 6 - CEX2A and 7 - CEX2C.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <rwuerthn@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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