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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-15 17:08:15 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-15 17:08:15 -0500
commitd72681d7c61f32a89147b8867cfb80e4ea119972 (patch)
tree2a83f714290065a9696d59f9f286887f134cfbe7 /Documentation
parent762fb1ddd561aac5b14afac19287672b99242811 (diff)
parente125096e733e966e055ee6033169f68233f9bf9c (diff)
Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kconfig changes from Michal Marek: - xconfig stores its setting in a meaningful path (~/.config/kernel.org/qconf.conf) - kconfig symbol search fix - documentation fixes - cleanup & comment update - fix warning when a kconfig symbol is defined with two different types - Yann is now officially listed as maintainer of kconfig, but he prefers me to send pull requests for now * 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: MAINTAINERS: New kconfig maintainer xconfig: Fix the filename for GUI settings kconfig: fix bug in search results string: use strlen(gstr->s), not gstr->len kconfig: remove unused definition from scanner kconfig: adjust warning message for conflicting types kconfig: fix trivial typos and update mconf documentation kconfig: add short explanation to SYMBOL_WRITE Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt: 'make listnewconfig' replaces: yes "" | make oldconfig
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
index 8ef6dbb6a462..bbc99c0c1094 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -20,16 +20,9 @@ symbols have been introduced.
20To see a list of new config symbols when using "make oldconfig", use 20To see a list of new config symbols when using "make oldconfig", use
21 21
22 cp user/some/old.config .config 22 cp user/some/old.config .config
23 yes "" | make oldconfig >conf.new 23 make listnewconfig
24 24
25and the config program will list as (NEW) any new symbols that have 25and the config program will list any new symbols, one per line.
26unknown values. Of course, the .config file is also updated with
27new (default) values, so you can use:
28
29 grep "(NEW)" conf.new
30
31to see the new config symbols or you can use diffconfig to see the
32differences between the previous and new .config files:
33 26
34 scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | less 27 scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | less
35 28