The patch titled kbuild: fix kbuild.txt typos has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kbuild-fix-kbuildtxt-typos.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: kbuild: fix kbuild.txt typos From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> Fix typos in the new kbuild.txt file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt~kbuild-fix-kbuildtxt-typos Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt~kbuild-fix-kbuildtxt-typos +++ a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Environment variables KCPPFLAGS -------------------------------------------------- Additional options to pass when preprocessing. The preprocessing options -will be used in all cases where kbuild do preprocessing including +will be used in all cases where kbuild does preprocessing including building C files and assembler files. KAFLAGS @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Additional options to the C compiler. KBUILD_VERBOSE -------------------------------------------------- -Set the kbuild verbosity. Can be assinged same values as "V=...". +Set the kbuild verbosity. Can be assigned same values as "V=...". See make help for the full list. Setting "V=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_VERBOSE. @@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ KBUILD_OUTPUT -------------------------------------------------- Specify the output directory when building the kernel. The output directory can also be specificed using "O=...". -Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT +Setting "O=..." takes precedence over KBUILD_OUTPUT. ARCH -------------------------------------------------- Set ARCH to the architecture to be built. In most cases the name of the architecture is the same as the directory name found in the arch/ directory. -But some architectures suach as x86 and sparc has aliases. +But some architectures such as x86 and sparc have aliases. x86: i386 for 32 bit, x86_64 for 64 bit sparc: sparc for 32 bit, sparc64 for 64 bit @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ CF is often used on the command-line lik INSTALL_PATH -------------------------------------------------- INSTALL_PATH specifies where to place the updated kernel and system map -images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values +images. Default is /boot, but you can set it to other values. MODLIB @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ INSTALL_MOD_STRIP will used as the optio INSTALL_FW_PATH -------------------------------------------------- -INSTALL_FW_PATH specify where to install the firmware blobs. +INSTALL_FW_PATH specifies where to install the firmware blobs. The default value is: $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/firmware @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ The value can be overridden in which cas INSTALL_HDR_PATH -------------------------------------------------- -INSTALL_HDR_PATH specify where to install user space headers when +INSTALL_HDR_PATH specifies where to install user space headers when executing "make headers_*". The default value is: @@ -112,22 +112,23 @@ The value can be overridden in which cas KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN -------------------------------------------------- -KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid error out in case of undefined -symbols in the final module linking stage. +KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN can be set to avoid errors in case of undefined +symbols in the final module linking stage. It changes such errors +into warnings. -KBUILD_MODPOST_FINAL +KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL -------------------------------------------------- KBUILD_MODPOST_NOFINAL can be set to skip the final link of modules. -This is solely usefull to speed up test compiles. +This is solely useful to speed up test compiles. KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS -------------------------------------------------- -For modules use symbols from another modules. +For modules that use symbols from other modules. See more details in modules.txt. ALLSOURCE_ARCHS -------------------------------------------------- -For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can specify more than one archs -to be included in the databases, separated by blankspace. e.g. +For tags/TAGS/cscope targets, you can specify more than one arch +to be included in the databases, separated by blank space. E.g.: $ make ALLSOURCE_ARCHS="x86 mips arm" tags _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx are update-of-documentation-vmtxt-and-proctxt.patch linux-next.patch kgdb-fix-kernel-doc-error.patch auditsc-fix-kernel-doc-notation.patch es-input-allow-certain-ev_abs-events-to-bypass-all-filtering-fix.patch kbuild-fix-kbuildtxt-typos.patch e1000e-make-e1000e-default-to-the-same-kconfig-setting-as-e1000.patch sunrpc-fix-rdma-dependency.patch proc-move-inode-comment-text-file-to-source-file.patch esp-fix-section-mismatch-warning.patch libfc-uses-select-crc32.patch sysrq-documentation-remove-the-redundant-updated-date.patch sysrq-documentation-document-why-the-command-header-only-is-shown.patch sysrq-add-commentary-on-why-we-use-the-console-loglevel-over-using-kern_emerg.patch max3100-spi-uart-driver.patch linuxpps-core-support.patch pps-userland-header-file-for-pps-api.patch pps-documentation-programs-and-examples.patch pps-linuxpps-clients-support.patch ldisc-new-dcd_change-method-for-line-disciplines.patch pps-parallel-port-clients-support.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html