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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-10 08:29:25 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-10 08:29:25 -0800
commite3166331a3288dd7184548896a1c7ab682f0dbe8 (patch)
tree2ec73946fd5ecbbb71954039a18aee829ed55b96 /Documentation
parent1693ed284f14a288c29f7265f9d71103e4c10821 (diff)
parent0719e1d23aab3b445c823404fd1b8b027757bb0a (diff)
Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6: Documentation/kbuild: add info that 'choice' can have a symbol name kbuild: add numeric --set-val option to scripts/config headers_check: Fix warning text headers_check: better search for functions in headers scripts/coccinelle: update for compatability with Coccinelle 0.2.4 tags: put function prototypes back! Kconfig: fix single letter command in scripts/config gitignore: add scripts/recordmcount
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/coccinelle.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
index 4a276ea7001c..96b690348ba1 100644
--- a/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
+++ b/Documentation/coccinelle.txt
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ as a regular user, and install it with
sudo make install
+The semantic patches in the kernel will work best with Coccinelle version
+0.2.4 or later. Using earlier versions may incur some parse errors in the
+semantic patch code, but any results that are obtained should still be
+correct.
Using Coccinelle on the Linux kernel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
index 5b9b1be6fde2..b507d61fd41c 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ separate list of options.
choices:
- "choice"
+ "choice" [symbol]
<choice options>
<choice block>
"endchoice"
@@ -281,6 +281,10 @@ single driver can be compiled/loaded into the kernel, but all drivers
can be compiled as modules.
A choice accepts another option "optional", which allows to set the
choice to 'n' and no entry needs to be selected.
+If no [symbol] is associated with a choice, then you can not have multiple
+definitions of that choice. If a [symbol] is associated to the choice,
+then you may define the same choice (ie. with the same entries) in another
+place.
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