linux/Documentation/kbuild
Josh Triplett 5d2acfc7b9 kconfig: make allnoconfig disable options behind EMBEDDED and EXPERT
"make allnoconfig" exists to ease testing of minimal configurations.
Documentation/SubmitChecklist includes a note to test with allnoconfig.
This helps catch missing dependencies on common-but-not-required
functionality, which might otherwise go unnoticed.

However, allnoconfig still leaves many symbols enabled, because they're
hidden behind CONFIG_EMBEDDED or CONFIG_EXPERT.  For instance, allnoconfig
still has CONFIG_PRINTK and CONFIG_BLOCK enabled, so drivers don't
typically get build-tested with those disabled.

To address this, introduce a new Kconfig option "allnoconfig_y", used on
symbols which only exist to hide other symbols.  Set it on CONFIG_EMBEDDED
(which then selects CONFIG_EXPERT).  allnoconfig will then disable all the
symbols hidden behind those.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-04-07 16:36:09 -07:00
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kbuild.txt
kconfig-language.txt kconfig: make allnoconfig disable options behind EMBEDDED and EXPERT 2014-04-07 16:36:09 -07:00
kconfig.txt Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt: 'make listnewconfig' replaces: yes "" | make oldconfig 2013-10-08 23:51:50 +02:00
makefiles.txt Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2013-05-07 07:59:19 -07:00
modules.txt doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation 2012-11-19 14:28:24 +01:00