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1 | config DEFCONFIG_LIST | |
2 | string | |
3 | option defconfig_list | |
4 | default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" | |
5 | default "/etc/kernel-config" | |
6 | default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE" | |
7 | default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig" | |
8 | ||
9 | menu "Code maturity level options" | |
10 | ||
11 | config EXPERIMENTAL | |
12 | bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" | |
13 | ---help--- | |
14 | Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network | |
15 | drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state | |
16 | of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of | |
17 | testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually | |
18 | known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is | |
19 | currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage | |
20 | uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to | |
21 | avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active | |
22 | testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it | |
23 | may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work | |
24 | in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar | |
25 | with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers | |
26 | (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents | |
27 | <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>, | |
28 | <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and | |
29 | <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source). | |
30 | ||
31 | This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are | |
32 | drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are | |
33 | scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release. | |
34 | ||
35 | Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that | |
36 | falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires | |
37 | using these features, you should probably say N here, which will | |
38 | cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If | |
39 | you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or | |
40 | drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase. | |
41 | ||
42 | config BROKEN | |
43 | bool | |
44 | ||
45 | config BROKEN_ON_SMP | |
46 | bool | |
47 | depends on BROKEN || !SMP | |
48 | default y | |
49 | ||
50 | config LOCK_KERNEL | |
51 | bool | |
52 | depends on SMP || PREEMPT | |
53 | default y | |
54 | ||
55 | config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT | |
56 | int | |
57 | default 32 if !USERMODE | |
58 | default 128 if USERMODE | |
59 | help | |
60 | Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment | |
61 | variables passed to init from the kernel command line. | |
62 | ||
63 | endmenu | |
64 | ||
65 | menu "General setup" | |
66 | ||
67 | config LOCALVERSION | |
68 | string "Local version - append to kernel release" | |
69 | help | |
70 | Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version. | |
71 | This will show up when you type uname, for example. | |
72 | The string you set here will be appended after the contents of | |
73 | any files with a filename matching localversion* in your | |
74 | object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can | |
75 | be a maximum of 64 characters. | |
76 | ||
77 | config LOCALVERSION_AUTO | |
78 | bool "Automatically append version information to the version string" | |
79 | default y | |
80 | help | |
81 | This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a | |
82 | release tree by looking for git tags that | |
83 | belong to the current top of tree revision. | |
84 | ||
85 | A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion | |
86 | if a git based tree is found. The string generated by this will be | |
87 | appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value | |
88 | set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION | |
89 | ||
90 | Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily | |
91 | the git or cogito tools to be installed. | |
92 | ||
93 | config SWAP | |
94 | bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)" | |
95 | depends on MMU | |
96 | default y | |
97 | help | |
98 | This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support | |
99 | for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are | |
100 | used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present | |
101 | in your computer. If unsure say Y. | |
102 | ||
103 | config SYSVIPC | |
104 | bool "System V IPC" | |
105 | ---help--- | |
106 | Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and | |
107 | system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and | |
108 | exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing, | |
109 | and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if | |
110 | you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the | |
111 | DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>), | |
112 | you'll need to say Y here. | |
113 | ||
114 | You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in | |
115 | section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from | |
116 | <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. | |
117 | ||
118 | config POSIX_MQUEUE | |
119 | bool "POSIX Message Queues" | |
120 | depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL | |
121 | ---help--- | |
122 | POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message | |
123 | queues every message has a priority which decides about succession | |
124 | of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run | |
125 | programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message | |
126 | queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. To use this feature you will | |
127 | also need mqueue library, available from | |
128 | <http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~wrona/posix_ipc/> | |
129 | ||
130 | POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue' | |
131 | and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem | |
132 | operations on message queues. | |
133 | ||
134 | If unsure, say Y. | |
135 | ||
136 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT | |
137 | bool "BSD Process Accounting" | |
138 | help | |
139 | If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the | |
140 | kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting | |
141 | information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about | |
142 | that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The | |
143 | information includes things such as creation time, owning user, | |
144 | command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete | |
145 | list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is | |
146 | up to the user level program to do useful things with this | |
147 | information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y. | |
148 | ||
149 | config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 | |
150 | bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format" | |
151 | depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT | |
152 | default n | |
153 | help | |
154 | If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written | |
155 | in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each | |
156 | process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible | |
157 | with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools | |
158 | for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available | |
159 | at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>. | |
160 | ||
161 | config SYSCTL | |
162 | bool "Sysctl support" if EMBEDDED | |
163 | default y | |
164 | ---help--- | |
165 | The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing | |
166 | certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring | |
167 | a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary | |
168 | interface consists of a system call, but if you say Y to "/proc | |
169 | file system support", a tree of modifiable sysctl entries will be | |
170 | generated beneath the /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the | |
171 | files in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this | |
172 | option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB. | |
173 | ||
174 | As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless | |
175 | building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very | |
176 | limited in memory. | |
177 | ||
178 | config AUDIT | |
179 | bool "Auditing support" | |
180 | depends on NET | |
181 | help | |
182 | Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another | |
183 | kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for | |
184 | logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call | |
185 | auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. | |
186 | ||
187 | config AUDITSYSCALL | |
188 | bool "Enable system-call auditing support" | |
189 | depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64) | |
190 | default y if SECURITY_SELINUX | |
191 | help | |
192 | Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that | |
193 | can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem, | |
194 | such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please | |
195 | ensure that INOTIFY is configured. | |
196 | ||
197 | config IKCONFIG | |
198 | bool "Kernel .config support" | |
199 | ---help--- | |
200 | This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file | |
201 | contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation | |
202 | of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an | |
203 | on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel | |
204 | image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as | |
205 | input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel. | |
206 | It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading | |
207 | /proc/config.gz if enabled (below). | |
208 | ||
209 | config IKCONFIG_PROC | |
210 | bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz" | |
211 | depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS | |
212 | ---help--- | |
213 | This option enables access to the kernel configuration file | |
214 | through /proc/config.gz. | |
215 | ||
216 | config CPUSETS | |
217 | bool "Cpuset support" | |
218 | depends on SMP | |
219 | help | |
220 | This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which | |
221 | allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and | |
222 | Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets. | |
223 | This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems. | |
224 | ||
225 | Say N if unsure. | |
226 | ||
227 | config RELAY | |
228 | bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)" | |
229 | help | |
230 | This option enables support for relay interface support in | |
231 | certain file systems (such as debugfs). | |
232 | It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and | |
233 | facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to | |
234 | user space. | |
235 | ||
236 | If unsure, say N. | |
237 | ||
238 | source "usr/Kconfig" | |
239 | ||
240 | config UID16 | |
241 | bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED | |
242 | depends on ARM || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION) | |
243 | default y | |
244 | help | |
245 | This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. | |
246 | ||
247 | config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE | |
248 | bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)" | |
249 | default y | |
250 | depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL | |
251 | help | |
252 | Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc | |
253 | resulting in a smaller kernel. | |
254 | ||
255 | WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this | |
256 | option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed. | |
257 | ||
258 | If unsure, say N. | |
259 | ||
260 | menuconfig EMBEDDED | |
261 | bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)" | |
262 | help | |
263 | This option allows certain base kernel options and settings | |
264 | to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized | |
265 | environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel. | |
266 | Only use this if you really know what you are doing. | |
267 | ||
268 | config KALLSYMS | |
269 | bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED | |
270 | default y | |
271 | help | |
272 | Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and | |
273 | symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel | |
274 | somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image. | |
275 | ||
276 | config KALLSYMS_ALL | |
277 | bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms" | |
278 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS | |
279 | help | |
280 | Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer | |
281 | OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other | |
282 | symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them | |
283 | and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel. | |
284 | ||
285 | Say N. | |
286 | ||
287 | config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS | |
288 | bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass" | |
289 | depends on KALLSYMS | |
290 | help | |
291 | If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with | |
292 | inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and | |
293 | turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build. | |
294 | Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be | |
295 | reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while | |
296 | you wait for kallsyms to be fixed. | |
297 | ||
298 | ||
299 | config HOTPLUG | |
300 | bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED | |
301 | default y | |
302 | help | |
303 | This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent | |
304 | capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider | |
305 | disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a | |
306 | dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y. | |
307 | ||
308 | config PRINTK | |
309 | default y | |
310 | bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED | |
311 | help | |
312 | This option enables normal printk support. Removing it | |
313 | eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image | |
314 | and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it | |
315 | very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is | |
316 | strongly discouraged. | |
317 | ||
318 | config BUG | |
319 | bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED | |
320 | default y | |
321 | help | |
322 | Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing | |
323 | the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring | |
324 | numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this | |
325 | option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors. | |
326 | Just say Y. | |
327 | ||
328 | config ELF_CORE | |
329 | default y | |
330 | bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED | |
331 | help | |
332 | Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k. | |
333 | ||
334 | config BASE_FULL | |
335 | default y | |
336 | bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED | |
337 | help | |
338 | Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core | |
339 | kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines, | |
340 | but may reduce performance. | |
341 | ||
342 | config FUTEX | |
343 | bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED | |
344 | default y | |
345 | help | |
346 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | |
347 | support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not | |
348 | run glibc-based applications correctly. | |
349 | ||
350 | config EPOLL | |
351 | bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED | |
352 | default y | |
353 | help | |
354 | Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without | |
355 | support for epoll family of system calls. | |
356 | ||
357 | config SHMEM | |
358 | bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED | |
359 | default y | |
360 | depends on MMU | |
361 | help | |
362 | The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory. | |
363 | It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported | |
364 | to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this | |
365 | option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code, | |
366 | which may be appropriate on small systems without swap. | |
367 | ||
368 | config SLAB | |
369 | default y | |
370 | bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if EMBEDDED | |
371 | help | |
372 | Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and | |
373 | kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator. | |
374 | SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is | |
375 | more susceptible to fragmentation. | |
376 | ||
377 | endmenu # General setup | |
378 | ||
379 | config TINY_SHMEM | |
380 | default !SHMEM | |
381 | bool | |
382 | ||
383 | config BASE_SMALL | |
384 | int | |
385 | default 0 if BASE_FULL | |
386 | default 1 if !BASE_FULL | |
387 | ||
388 | config SLOB | |
389 | default !SLAB | |
390 | bool | |
391 | ||
392 | menu "Loadable module support" | |
393 | ||
394 | config MODULES | |
395 | bool "Enable loadable module support" | |
396 | help | |
397 | Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can | |
398 | be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being | |
399 | permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe" | |
400 | tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here, | |
401 | many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by | |
402 | answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most | |
403 | useful for infrequently used options which are not required | |
404 | for booting. For more information, see the man pages for | |
405 | modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod. | |
406 | ||
407 | If you say Y here, you will need to run "make | |
408 | modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/ | |
409 | where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do | |
410 | this). | |
411 | ||
412 | If unsure, say Y. | |
413 | ||
414 | config MODULE_UNLOAD | |
415 | bool "Module unloading" | |
416 | depends on MODULES | |
417 | help | |
418 | Without this option you will not be able to unload any | |
419 | modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable | |
420 | anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and | |
421 | simpler. If unsure, say Y. | |
422 | ||
423 | config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD | |
424 | bool "Forced module unloading" | |
425 | depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL | |
426 | help | |
427 | This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the | |
428 | kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module | |
429 | without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to | |
430 | rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users. | |
431 | If unsure, say N. | |
432 | ||
433 | config MODVERSIONS | |
434 | bool "Module versioning support" | |
435 | depends on MODULES | |
436 | help | |
437 | Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. | |
438 | Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules | |
439 | compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information | |
440 | to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would | |
441 | make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If | |
442 | unsure, say N. | |
443 | ||
444 | config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL | |
445 | bool "Source checksum for all modules" | |
446 | depends on MODULES | |
447 | help | |
448 | Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion" | |
449 | field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a | |
450 | sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers | |
451 | see exactly which source was used to build a module (since | |
452 | others sometimes change the module source without updating | |
453 | the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field | |
454 | will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N. | |
455 | ||
456 | config KMOD | |
457 | bool "Automatic kernel module loading" | |
458 | depends on MODULES | |
459 | help | |
460 | Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to | |
461 | be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the | |
462 | "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y | |
463 | here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules | |
464 | automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it | |
465 | runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby | |
466 | loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y. | |
467 | ||
468 | config STOP_MACHINE | |
469 | bool | |
470 | default y | |
471 | depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU | |
472 | help | |
473 | Need stop_machine() primitive. | |
474 | endmenu | |
475 | ||
476 | menu "Block layer" | |
477 | source "block/Kconfig" | |
478 | endmenu |