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Thomas Hebb 3460d0bc25 kconfig: distinguish between dependencies and visibility in help text 
Kconfig makes a distinction between dependencies (defined by "depends
on" expressions and enclosing "if" blocks) and visibility (which
includes all dependencies, but also includes inline "if" expressions of
individual properties as well as, for prompts, "visible if" expressions
of enclosing menus).

Before commit bcdedcc1af ("menuconfig: print more info for symbol
without prompts"), the "Depends on" lines of a symbol's help text
indicated the visibility of the prompt property they appeared under.
After bcdedcc1af, there was always only a single "Depends on" line,
which indicated the visibility of the first P_SYMBOL property of the
symbol. Since P_SYMBOLs never have inline if expressions, this was in
effect the same as the dependencies of the menu item that the P_SYMBOL
was attached to.

Neither of these situations accurately conveyed the dependencies of a
symbol--the first because it was actually the visibility, and the second
because it only showed the dependencies from a single definition.

With this series, we are back to printing separate dependencies for each
definition, but we print the actual dependencies (rather than the
visibility) in the "Depends on" line. However, it can still be useful to
know the visibility of a prompt, so this patch adds a "Visible if" line
that shows the visibility only if the visibility is different from the
dependencies (which it isn't for most prompts in Linux).

Before:

  Symbol: THUMB2_KERNEL [=n]
  Type  : bool
  Defined at arch/arm/Kconfig:1417
    Prompt: Compile the kernel in Thumb-2 mode
    Depends on: (CPU_V7 [=y] || CPU_V7M [=n]) && !CPU_V6 [=n] && !CPU_V6K [=n]
    Location:
      -> Kernel Features
    Selects: ARM_UNWIND [=n]

After:

   Symbol: THUMB2_KERNEL [=n]
   Type  : bool
   Defined at arch/arm/Kconfig:1417
     Prompt: Compile the kernel in Thumb-2 mode
     Depends on: (CPU_V7 [=y] || CPU_V7M [=n]) && !CPU_V6 [=n] && !CPU_V6K [=n]
     Visible if: (CPU_V7 [=y] || CPU_V7M [=n]) && !CPU_V6 [=n] && !CPU_V6K [=n] && !CPU_THUMBONLY [=n]
     Location:
       -> Kernel Features
     Selects: ARM_UNWIND [=n]

Signed-off-by: Thomas Hebb <tommyhebb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-01-07 02:18:45 +09:00
arch RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 11:15:31 -08:00
block block: fix splitting segments on boundary masks 2019-12-30 08:51:18 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto tpmdd fixes for Linux v5.5-rc3 2019-12-18 17:17:36 -08:00
Documentation RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 11:15:31 -08:00
drivers RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 11:15:31 -08:00
fs ocfs2: fix the crash due to call ocfs2_get_dlm_debug once less 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
include kcov: fix struct layout for kcov_remote_arg 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
init Revert "fs: remove ksys_dup()" 2020-01-02 16:15:33 -08:00
ipc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
kernel memcg: account security cred as well to kmemcg 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-12-22 17:00:04 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm/hugetlb: defer freeing of huge pages if in non-task context 2020-01-04 13:55:09 -08:00
net hsr: fix slab-out-of-bounds Read in hsr_debugfs_rename() 2019-12-30 20:36:27 -08:00
samples samples/seccomp: Zero out members based on seccomp_notif_sizes 2020-01-02 13:03:39 -08:00
scripts kconfig: distinguish between dependencies and visibility in help text 2020-01-07 02:18:45 +09:00
security + Bug fixes 2020-01-04 19:28:30 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.5-rc5 2020-01-03 11:10:31 -08:00
tools Fixes for seccomp_notify_ioctl uapi sanity 2020-01-02 16:42:10 -08:00
usr gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix 'bad variable name' error 2020-01-04 00:00:48 +09:00
virt PPC KVM fix for 5.5 2019-12-22 13:18:15 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore modpost: dump missing namespaces into a single modules.nsdeps file 2019-11-11 20:10:01 +09:00
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CREDITS Linux 5.4-rc4 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS RISC-V updates for v5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 11:15:31 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.5-rc5 2020-01-05 14:23:27 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.