Kbuild update

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Thu Jan 03 2008 - 16:33:11 EST

kbuild.git contains at the moment 36 patches which is all for the upcoming merge window.
It has been rebased to latest -linus git tree.
See shortlog below.

Pending patches
===============
kbuild:
- Section garbage collection (Denys Vlasenko)
I had too little time to play with it so it will not hit this merge window :-(
- Improved stripping (Jan Beulich)
needs review
- Enhance make rpm (Florin Andrei)
needs review
- merge uboot mkimage (Josh Boyer)
await an update with a renamed script, maybe I already got it

kconfig:
- Access enviromnet variables (Roman Zippel)
seems I have lost the original patch - needs to serach lkml.org
- arch/Kconfig (Mathieu)
(Maybe Andrew have them, needs follow up)
- xconfig search dialog (Shlomi Fish)
needs review + test

Known issues
============
kbuild:
- make rpm are reported buggy
I have plenty of mails with bug reports but no patches and I do not know rpm myself
- zillion of mails from Robert P. J. Day


kconfig:
- Segmentation violation when seeing recursive symbols
I added the bug but have not had time to fix it yet

TODO items (from my mailbox - I have plenty more)
=================================================
- asm-offset useable from modules (Oleg had a half backed solution)
- modpost should use err(), warn() etc (suggestyed by Rusty)
- less kernel hardcoding in kconfig (Rob Landley)
- emit dependencies from "depends" (Bernhard Fischer)
- fix select (whatever that means)
- allow kconfig to accept overrides (Jan Engelhart)
maybe there is a patch, needs followup
- document kernel build better (Andreas Hermann)
just a start, more is needed
- save ARCH and CROSSCOMPILE
requires major surgery to do correct - we use CC too early
- i18n patch for mconf and friends (from Kernel Translator project)
is old but several bits of it needs to be applied to better support i18n
- i18n support in kernel
some like it, others don't. But now we have japanese versions of some docs...
- use GCC --combine (David Woodhouse)
- more color themes (Jan Engelhart)
and I would like them selectable from inside menuconfig
- walk throug the ~15 qconf related patched - are they relevant?
- document use of __init and related sections
- Use seperate sections for all init sections to improve checking
- improve headers_check (10x speed up is possible by doing a dir-by-dir check)

bugzilla.kernel.org
===================
7103 sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx NEW 2.6.17.* initramfs problem
3174 sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx ASSI 2.6.7 make rpm creates erroneous version number
3486 sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx ASSI 2.6.4-52 "make clean" on external driver will clean the kernel sou...
6860 sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx ASSI 2.6.18-rc1 'make deb-pkg' create incorrect package name
7042 sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx ASSI 2.6.17.7 Recursing into /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build infects my b...
8275 sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx ASSI 2.6.21-rc5-g28d... make rpm-pkg broken for git cloned sources

On top of this I have my personal todo items such as:
- document kconfig a bit
- make it possible to include all kconfig files
- clean up kconfig files
- documet use of HAVE_ in kconfig files
- modern ncurses interface for menuconfig (ala tig, htop and others)
- etc...

So all in all no reasons to be bored.
Did you send me a patch that is neither listed above nor below then please resend.
Any help with the above are much appreciated!

Note: The kbuild stuff is done only in my spare time and
with 3 kids, a wife and a full-time job I am often lacking behind.

Sam


Adrian Bunk (1):
Remove references to "make dep"

Andi Kleen (3):
kbuild: declare the modpost error functions as printf like
kbuild: fix format string warnings in modpost
kbuild: fix a buffer overflow in modpost

Andreas Mohr (1):
kbuild: eradicate bashisms in scripts/patch-kernel

Andres Salomon (1):
kconfig: use getopt() in conf.c for handling command line arguments

Aron Griffis (1):
kbuild: support mercurial in setlocalversion

Geert Uytterhoeven (1):
kbuild: Add missing srctree prefix for includecheck and versioncheck

Johannes Berg (7):
kernel-doc: fix xml output mode
kernel-doc: init kernel version
kernel-doc: single DOC: selection
kernel-doc: process functions, not DOC:
kernel-doc: use no-doc option
kernel-doc: new P directive for DOC: sections
convert drivers/base/power/Makefile to ccflags

Ladislav Michl (1):
kconfig: make kconfig MinGW friendly

Mike Frysinger (1):
kbuild: fixup genksyms usage/getopt

Randy Dunlap (2):
kbuild: add 'includecheck' help text
kconfig: add hints/tips/tricks to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

Robert P. J. Day (2):
Kbuild: Clarify the rpm-related make packaging targets
A few corrections to include/linux/Kbuild

Sam Ravnborg (5):
kbuild: document versioncheck in make help
kconfig: if ncurses-devel is missing then say so
kbuild: fix buglet in gcc-version.sh
kbuild: ignore *.order files
kbuild: fix installing external modules

Tejun Heo (1):
kbuild: implement modules.order

Theodore Ts'o (3):
kbuild: change CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO to use a git-describe-ish format
kbuild: fix scripts/setlocalversion to avoid erroneous -dirty tag
kbuild: fix false positive -dirty tag caused by make-kpkg

Vegard Nossum (1):
aic7(3*x): fix firmware build

WANG Cong (5):
MIPS: Remove 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles
CRIS: Remove 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles
INFINIBAND: Remove 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles
FRV: Drop 'TOPDIR' from Makefiles
FS: Remove dead code

The full diffstat is:
.gitignore | 1 +
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 54 +++++++++++++++--
Makefile | 15 ++++-
arch/arm/mach-imx/Makefile | 3 -
arch/arm/mach-netx/Makefile | 3 -
arch/cris/arch-v32/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/frv/boot/Makefile | 8 +-
arch/frv/kernel/gdb-stub.c | 2 +-
arch/mips/lasat/image/Makefile | 4 +-
arch/mips/tx4927/common/Makefile | 4 -
arch/mips/tx4938/common/Makefile | 4 -
arch/mips/tx4938/toshiba_rbtx4938/Makefile | 4 -
arch/sh64/kernel/Makefile | 4 -
arch/sh64/lib/Makefile | 4 -
arch/sh64/mach-cayman/Makefile | 4 -
arch/sh64/mm/Makefile | 4 -
arch/xtensa/mm/Makefile | 4 -
arch/xtensa/platform-iss/Makefile | 5 --
drivers/base/power/Makefile | 8 +--
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/Makefile | 3 +-
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/Makefile | 45 ++++++---------
fs/smbfs/Makefile | 20 ------
include/linux/Kbuild | 8 +-
scripts/Makefile.build | 17 +++++-
scripts/Makefile.lib | 6 ++
scripts/Makefile.modinst | 2 +-
scripts/basic/docproc.c | 44 +++++++++++++-
scripts/gcc-version.sh | 5 +-
scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c | 10 ++-
scripts/kconfig/Makefile | 14 +++--
scripts/kconfig/conf.c | 24 ++++----
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh | 16 +++--
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h | 5 +-
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.c | 32 +++++++----
scripts/kconfig/mconf.c | 61 +++----------------
scripts/kernel-doc | 85 ++++++++++++++++++--------
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 18 ++++--
scripts/package/Makefile | 5 +-
scripts/patch-kernel | 22 +++----
scripts/setlocalversion | 29 +++++++++-
40 files changed, 338 insertions(+), 270 deletions(-)


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