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

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

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.
 
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