Merge tag 'kconfig-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Change 'option defconfig' to the environment variable
   KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST

 - Refactor tinyconfig without using allnoconfig_y

 - Remove 'option allnoconfig_y' syntax

 - Change 'option modules' to 'modules'

 - Do not use /boot/config-* etc. as base config for cross-compilation

 - Fix a search bug in nconf

 - Various code cleanups

* tag 'kconfig-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
  kconfig: refactor .gitignore
  kconfig: highlight xconfig 'comment' lines with '***'
  kconfig: highlight gconfig 'comment' lines with '***'
  kconfig: gconf: remove unused code
  kconfig: remove unused PACKAGE definition
  kconfig: nconf: stop endless search loops
  kconfig: split menu.c out of parser.y
  kconfig: nconf: refactor in print_in_middle()
  kconfig: nconf: remove meaningless wattrset() call from show_menu()
  kconfig: nconf: change set_config_filename() to void function
  kconfig: nconf: refactor attributes setup code
  kconfig: nconf: remove unneeded default for menu prompt
  kconfig: nconf: get rid of (void) casts from wattrset() calls
  kconfig: nconf: fix NORMAL attributes
  kconfig: mconf,nconf: remove unneeded '\0' termination after snprintf()
  kconfig: use /boot/config-* etc. as DEFCONFIG_LIST only for native build
  kconfig: change sym_change_count to a boolean flag
  kconfig: nconf: fix core dump when searching in empty menu
  kconfig: lxdialog: A spello fix and a punctuation added
  kconfig: streamline_config.pl: Couple of typo fixes
  ...

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
index 226ae072da7d..98c24183d8c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
@@ -223,25 +223,10 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
   the indentation level, this means it ends at the first line which has
   a smaller indentation than the first line of the help text.
 
-- misc options: "option" <symbol>[=<value>]
-
-  Various less common options can be defined via this option syntax,
-  which can modify the behaviour of the menu entry and its config
-  symbol. These options are currently possible:
-
-  - "defconfig_list"
-    This declares a list of default entries which can be used when
-    looking for the default configuration (which is used when the main
-    .config doesn't exists yet.)
-
-  - "modules"
-    This declares the symbol to be used as the MODULES symbol, which
-    enables the third modular state for all config symbols.
-    At most one symbol may have the "modules" option set.
-
-  - "allnoconfig_y"
-    This declares the symbol as one that should have the value y when
-    using "allnoconfig". Used for symbols that hide other symbols.
+- module attribute: "modules"
+  This declares the symbol to be used as the MODULES symbol, which
+  enables the third modular state for all config symbols.
+  At most one symbol may have the "modules" option set.
 
 Menu dependencies
 -----------------
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst
index dce6801d66c9..5967c79c3baa 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ KCONFIG_CONFIG
 This environment variable can be used to specify a default kernel config
 file name to override the default name of ".config".
 
+KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST
+----------------------
+
+This environment variable specifies a list of config files which can be used
+as a base configuration in case the .config does not exist yet. Entries in
+the list are separated with whitespaces to each other, and the first one
+that exists is used.
+
 KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG
 -----------------------
 If you set KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG in the environment, Kconfig will not