kconfig: document use of CONFIG_ environment variable

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
index a09f1a6a830c..b8b77bbc784f 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG
 If you set KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG in the environment, Kconfig will not
 break symlinks when .config is a symlink to somewhere else.
 
+CONFIG_
+--------------------------------------------------
+If you set CONFIG_ in the environment, Kconfig will prefix all symbols
+with its value when saving the configuration, instead of using the default,
+"CONFIG_".
+
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 Environment variables for '{allyes/allmod/allno/rand}config'