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authorMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2009-12-07 16:38:33 +0100
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>2009-12-12 13:08:16 +0100
commitbc081dd6e9f622c73334dc465359168543ccaabf (patch)
treec015f5eba8e1bc79b2eb3861b8e95f15ee6d047d /Documentation/kbuild
parent6299fee7b84ac7b4429b4e2787b99470a89cd5f5 (diff)
downloadlinux-bc081dd6e9f622c73334dc465359168543ccaabf.tar.bz2
kbuild: generate modules.builtin
To make it easier for module-init-tools and scripts like mkinitrd to distinguish builtin and missing modules, install a modules.builtin file listing all builtin modules. This is done by generating an additional config file (tristate.conf) with tristate options set to uppercase 'Y' or 'M'. If we source that config file, the builtin modules appear in obj-Y. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt5
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index bb3bf38f03da..6f8c1cabbc5d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+Output files
+
+modules.order
+--------------------------------------------------
+This file records the order in which modules appear in Makefiles. This
+is used by modprobe to deterministically resolve aliases that match
+multiple modules.
+
+modules.builtin
+--------------------------------------------------
+This file lists all modules that are built into the kernel. This is used
+by modprobe to not fail when trying to load something builtin.
+
+
Environment variables
KCPPFLAGS
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
index ab8dc3538988..49efae703979 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ KCONFIG_AUTOCONFIG
This environment variable can be set to specify the path & name of the
"auto.conf" file. Its default value is "include/config/auto.conf".
+KCONFIG_TRISTATE
+--------------------------------------------------
+This environment variable can be set to specify the path & name of the
+"tristate.conf" file. Its default value is "include/config/tristate.conf".
+
KCONFIG_AUTOHEADER
--------------------------------------------------
This environment variable can be set to specify the path & name of the