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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-10 08:29:25 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-10 08:29:25 -0800 |
| commit | e3166331a3288dd7184548896a1c7ab682f0dbe8 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ec73946fd5ecbbb71954039a18aee829ed55b96 /Documentation | |
| parent | 1693ed284f14a288c29f7265f9d71103e4c10821 (diff) | |
| parent | 0719e1d23aab3b445c823404fd1b8b027757bb0a (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.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 6 |
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. comment: |