kernel/scripts/kconfig/Makefile, branch linux-4.16.y

kconfig: Remove silentoldconfig from help and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help

2018-01-27T20:48:31Z

As explained by Michal Marek at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/31/189 silentoldconfig has become a misnomer. It has become an internal interface so remove it from "make help" and Documentation/ to stop confusing people using it as seen for instance at https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/835632 Don't remove it from kconfig/Makefile yet not to break any (other) tool using it. On the other hand, correct and expand its description in the help of the (internal) scripts/kconfig/conf.c Signed-off-by: Marc Herbert Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kconfig: announce removal of oldnoconfig if used

2018-01-25T12:46:28Z

The 'oldnoconfig' is really confusing due to its counter-intuitive name. It was renamed by commit fb16d8912db5 ("kconfig: replace 'oldnoconfig' with 'olddefconfig', and keep the old name as an alias"). The 'oldnoconfig' has been kept as an alias for enough period of time, and finally I am planning to remove it. I will give people a little more time for migration. Meanwhile, the following message will be displayed if oldnoconfig is used. WARNING: "oldnoconfig" target will be removed after Linux 4.19 Please use "olddefconfig" instead, which is an alias. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Ulf Magnusson

kconfig: fix make xconfig when gettext is missing

2018-01-21T18:30:09Z

The C-based config programs are properly guarded from a missing (or, currently, external) libintl.h by the HOST_EXTRACFLAGS check, but this does not help the C++-based qconf. Signed-off-by: Yaakov Selkowitz Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kconfig: use default 'yy' prefix for lexer and parser

2018-01-21T15:49:31Z

Flex and Bison provide an option to change the prefix of globally- visible symbols. This is useful to link multiple lexers and/or parsers into the same executable. However, Kconfig (and any other host programs in kernel) uses a single lexer and parser. I do not see a good reason to change the default 'yy' prefix. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Ulf Magnusson

kconfig: generate lexer and parser during build instead of shipping

2017-12-16T02:12:54Z

zconf.lex.c is generated by flex, zconf.tab.c by bison. Instead of running flex and bison during the kernel building, we conventionally version-control those artifacts with _shipped suffix. It is tedious to manually regenerate them every time we change the real sources, zconf.l and zconf.y. Remove the _shipped files and switch over to build-time generation of the intermediate C files. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Remove gperf usage from toolchain

2017-08-19T18:02:53Z

It turns out that gperf-3.1 changed types in the generated code in ways that aren't even trivially detectable without having to generate a test-file. It's just not worth using tools and libraries from clowns that don't understand or care about compatibility. So get rid of gperf. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kconfig: Check for libncurses before menuconfig

2017-06-09T16:27:49Z

There is a check and a nice user-friendly message when the curses library is not present on the system and the user wants to do "make menuconfig". It doesn't get issued, though. Instead, we fail the build when mconf.c doesn't find the curses.h header: HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o In file included from scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:23:0: scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:38:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory #include CURSES_LOC ^ compilation terminated. Make that check a prerequisite to mconf so that the user sees the error message instead: $ make menuconfig *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the *** required header files. *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries. *** *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again. *** scripts/kconfig/Makefile:203: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog' failed make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1 Makefile:548: recipe for target 'menuconfig' failed make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: make sure autoksyms.h exists early

2016-12-01T18:19:22Z

Some people are able to trigger a race where autoksyms.h is used before its empty version is even created. Let's create it at the same time as the directory holding it is created. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava Tested-by: Jarod Wilson Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

scripts/kconfig: allow building with make 3.80 again

2016-02-01T11:11:27Z

Documentation/Changes still lists this as the minimal required version, so it ought to remain usable for the time being. Fixes: d2036f30cf ("scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target") Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Cc: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Michal Marek