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authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2021-03-13 22:48:32 +0300
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>2021-04-14 09:22:48 +0300
commitb75b0a819af9f78fc395b189cddd40f590194d20 (patch)
treed02451f57f32ad27f68c01a8c56a3ec83ec6ed4d /Documentation/kbuild
parent406616213bb776a6e6ec69192df39ab1042690f1 (diff)
downloadlinux-b75b0a819af9f78fc395b189cddd40f590194d20.tar.xz
kconfig: change defconfig_list option to environment variable
"defconfig_list" is a weird option that defines a static symbol that declares the list of base config files in case the .config does not exist yet. This is quite different from other normal symbols; we just abused the "string" type and the "default" properties to list out the input files. They must be fixed values since these are searched for and loaded in the parse stage. It is an ugly hack, and should not exist in the first place. Providing this feature as an environment variable is a saner approach. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
index 226ae072da7d..3cbccfc42798 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst
@@ -229,11 +229,6 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax).
which can modify the behaviour of the menu entry and its config
symbol. These options are currently possible:
- - "defconfig_list"
- This declares a list of default entries which can be used when
- looking for the default configuration (which is used when the main
- .config doesn't exists yet.)
-
- "modules"
This declares the symbol to be used as the MODULES symbol, which
enables the third modular state for all config symbols.
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst
index dce6801d66c9..5967c79c3baa 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ KCONFIG_CONFIG
This environment variable can be used to specify a default kernel config
file name to override the default name of ".config".
+KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST
+----------------------
+
+This environment variable specifies a list of config files which can be used
+as a base configuration in case the .config does not exist yet. Entries in
+the list are separated with whitespaces to each other, and the first one
+that exists is used.
+
KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG
-----------------------
If you set KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG in the environment, Kconfig will not