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| author | Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> | 2024-09-17 23:16:30 +0900 |
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| committer | Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> | 2024-09-24 03:07:20 +0900 |
| commit | 1a59bd3ca5d8fde10d082e56c3073f7fa563e73b (patch) | |
| tree | ecaeda1d9b2f435dbd1a70af67bf0cd5338d541f /Documentation | |
| parent | 062a1481cf275d39d3cda99f8357f2f8bdd8f611 (diff) | |
kbuild: doc: remove description about grepping CONFIG options
This description was added 20 years ago [1]. It does not convey any
useful information except for a feeling of nostalgia.
[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=65e433436b5794ae056d22ddba60fe9194bba007
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst index 1014a275a7e1..268ebbd2ab74 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst @@ -521,9 +521,3 @@ build. ext2-y := balloc.o bitmap.o dir.o ext2-$(CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR) += xattr.o - - External modules have traditionally used "grep" to check for - specific `CONFIG_` settings directly in .config. This usage is - broken. As introduced before, external modules should use - kbuild for building and can therefore use the same methods as - in-tree modules when testing for `CONFIG_` definitions. |