From 0d8024c6ebadb68f1154377c2e1996b4e649e4c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Yann E. MORIN" Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 22:49:13 +0200 Subject: 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" --- Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild') 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 @@ -89,6 +89,15 @@ These examples will disable most options (allnoconfig) but enable or 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' -- cgit v1.2.3