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| author | Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> | 2013-04-13 22:49:13 +0200 |
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| committer | Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> | 2013-04-25 00:16:25 +0200 |
| commit | 0d8024c6ebadb68f1154377c2e1996b4e649e4c8 (patch) | |
| tree | bd38ec60a908adf8cf7c75aa7b3b19fab52d9e64 /Documentation/kbuild | |
| parent | 422c809f03f043d0950d8362214818e956a9daee (diff) | |
| download | linux-0d8024c6ebadb68f1154377c2e1996b4e649e4c8.tar.bz2 | |
kconfig: allow specifying the seed for randconfig
For reproducibility, it can be useful to be able to specify the
seed to use to seed the RNG.
Add a new KCONFIG_SEED environment variable which can be set to
the seed to use:
$ make KCONFIG_SEED=42 randconfig
$ sha1sum .config
70a128c8dcc61303069e1be352cce64114dfcbca .config
$ make KCONFIG_SEED=42 randconfig
$ sha1sum .config
70a128c8dcc61303069e1be352cce64114dfcbca .config
It's very usefull for eg. debugging the kconfig parser.
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt index b8b77bbc784f..dbf746b70553 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt @@ -90,6 +90,15 @@ disable the options that are explicitly listed in the specified mini-config files. ______________________________________________________________________ +Environment variables for 'randconfig' + +KCONFIG_SEED +-------------------------------------------------- +You can set this to the integer value used to seed the RNG, if you want +to somehow debug the behaviour of the kconfig parser/frontends. +If not set, the current time will be used. + +______________________________________________________________________ Environment variables for 'silentoldconfig' KCONFIG_NOSILENTUPDATE |