Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig

 - Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script

 - Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
   CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF

 - Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by
   default

 - Fix warnings in RPM package builds

 - Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate
   base DTB and overlays

 - Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig

 - Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig

 - Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian
   package builds

 - Remove support for the uncommon "name <email>" form for the DEBEMAIL
   environment variable

 - Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0

 - Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms

 - Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/

 - Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in
   Arch Linux

 - Clean up Kconfig

* tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (65 commits)
  kbuild: doc: gcc to CC change
  kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type
  kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry
  kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines
  kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf()
  kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers
  kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
  modpost: use generic macros for hash table implementation
  kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/
  Makefile: add comment to discourage tools/* addition for kernel builds
  kbuild: clean up scripts/remove-stale-files
  kconfig: recursive checks drop file/lineno
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec
  kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms
  kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist
  kbuild: Abort make on install failures
  kconfig: remove 'e1' and 'e2' macros from expression deduplication
  kconfig: remove SYMBOL_CHOICEVAL flag
  kconfig: add const qualifiers to several function arguments
  kconfig: call expr_eliminate_yn() at least once in expr_eliminate_dups()
  ...

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
index 1fb3f5e6193c..71b38a7670f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
@@ -409,16 +409,9 @@ choices::
 	"endchoice"
 
 This defines a choice group and accepts any of the above attributes as
-options. A choice can only be of type bool or tristate.  If no type is
-specified for a choice, its type will be determined by the type of
-the first choice element in the group or remain unknown if none of the
-choice elements have a type specified, as well.
-
-While a boolean choice only allows a single config entry to be
-selected, a tristate choice also allows any number of config entries
-to be set to 'm'. This can be used if multiple drivers for a single
-hardware exists and only a single driver can be compiled/loaded into
-the kernel, but all drivers can be compiled as modules.
+options.
+
+A choice only allows a single config entry to be selected.
 
 comment::
 
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
index 991ce6081e35..be43990f1e7f 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ cc-option
   Note: cc-option uses KBUILD_CFLAGS for $(CC) options
 
 cc-option-yn
-  cc-option-yn is used to check if gcc supports a given option
+  cc-option-yn is used to check if $(CC) supports a given option
   and return "y" if supported, otherwise "n".
 
   Example::
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ cc-option-yn
   Note: cc-option-yn uses KBUILD_CFLAGS for $(CC) options
 
 cc-disable-warning
-  cc-disable-warning checks if gcc supports a given warning and returns
+  cc-disable-warning checks if $(CC) supports a given warning and returns
   the commandline switch to disable it. This special function is needed,
   because gcc 4.4 and later accept any unknown -Wno-* option and only
   warn about it if there is another warning in the source file.
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ cc-disable-warning
     KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-but-set-variable)
 
   In the above example, -Wno-unused-but-set-variable will be added to
-  KBUILD_CFLAGS only if gcc really accepts it.
+  KBUILD_CFLAGS only if $(CC) really accepts it.
 
 gcc-min-version
   gcc-min-version tests if the value of $(CONFIG_GCC_VERSION) is greater than
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
index 8d225a9f65a2..1497e80f030e 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ GNU C                  5.1              gcc --version
 Clang/LLVM (optional)  13.0.1           clang --version
 Rust (optional)        1.78.0           rustc --version
 bindgen (optional)     0.65.1           bindgen --version
-GNU make               3.82             make --version
+GNU make               4.0              make --version
 bash                   4.2              bash --version
 binutils               2.25             ld -v
 flex                   2.5.35           flex --version
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ It depends on ``libclang``.
 Make
 ----
 
-You will need GNU make 3.82 or later to build the kernel.
+You will need GNU make 4.0 or later to build the kernel.
 
 Bash
 ----