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  1. menu "Code maturity level options"
  2. config EXPERIMENTAL
  3. bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
  4. ---help---
  5. Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
  6. drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
  7. of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
  8. testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
  9. known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
  10. currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
  11. uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
  12. avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
  13. testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
  14. may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
  15. in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
  16. with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
  17. (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
  18. <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
  19. <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
  20. <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
  21. This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
  22. drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
  23. scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
  24. Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
  25. falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
  26. using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
  27. cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
  28. you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
  29. drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
  30. config BROKEN
  31. bool
  32. config BROKEN_ON_SMP
  33. bool
  34. depends on BROKEN || !SMP
  35. default y
  36. config LOCK_KERNEL
  37. bool
  38. depends on SMP || PREEMPT
  39. default y
  40. config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
  41. int
  42. default 32 if !USERMODE
  43. default 128 if USERMODE
  44. help
  45. Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
  46. variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
  47. endmenu
  48. menu "General setup"
  49. config LOCALVERSION
  50. string "Local version - append to kernel release"
  51. help
  52. Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
  53. This will show up when you type uname, for example.
  54. The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
  55. any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
  56. object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
  57. be a maximum of 64 characters.
  58. config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
  59. bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
  60. default y
  61. help
  62. This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
  63. release tree by looking for git tags that
  64. belong to the current top of tree revision.
  65. A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
  66. if a git based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
  67. appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
  68. set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
  69. Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
  70. the git or cogito tools to be installed.
  71. config SWAP
  72. bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
  73. depends on MMU
  74. default y
  75. help
  76. This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
  77. for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
  78. used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
  79. in your computer. If unsure say Y.
  80. config SYSVIPC
  81. bool "System V IPC"
  82. ---help---
  83. Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
  84. system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
  85. exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
  86. and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
  87. you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
  88. DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
  89. you'll need to say Y here.
  90. You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
  91. section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
  92. <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
  93. config POSIX_MQUEUE
  94. bool "POSIX Message Queues"
  95. depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
  96. ---help---
  97. POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
  98. queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
  99. of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
  100. programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
  101. queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. To use this feature you will
  102. also need mqueue library, available from
  103. <http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~wrona/posix_ipc/>
  104. POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
  105. and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
  106. operations on message queues.
  107. If unsure, say Y.
  108. config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
  109. bool "BSD Process Accounting"
  110. help
  111. If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
  112. kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
  113. information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
  114. that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
  115. information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
  116. command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
  117. list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
  118. up to the user level program to do useful things with this
  119. information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
  120. config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
  121. bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
  122. depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
  123. default n
  124. help
  125. If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
  126. in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
  127. process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
  128. with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
  129. for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
  130. at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
  131. config SYSCTL
  132. bool "Sysctl support"
  133. ---help---
  134. The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
  135. certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
  136. a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
  137. interface consists of a system call, but if you say Y to "/proc
  138. file system support", a tree of modifiable sysctl entries will be
  139. generated beneath the /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the
  140. files in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
  141. option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
  142. As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
  143. building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
  144. limited in memory.
  145. config AUDIT
  146. bool "Auditing support"
  147. depends on NET
  148. help
  149. Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
  150. kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
  151. logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
  152. auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
  153. config AUDITSYSCALL
  154. bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
  155. depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
  156. default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
  157. help
  158. Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
  159. can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
  160. such as SELinux.
  161. config IKCONFIG
  162. bool "Kernel .config support"
  163. ---help---
  164. This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
  165. contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
  166. of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
  167. on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
  168. image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
  169. input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
  170. It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
  171. /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
  172. config IKCONFIG_PROC
  173. bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
  174. depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
  175. ---help---
  176. This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
  177. through /proc/config.gz.
  178. config CPUSETS
  179. bool "Cpuset support"
  180. depends on SMP
  181. help
  182. This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
  183. allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
  184. Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
  185. This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
  186. Say N if unsure.
  187. config RELAY
  188. bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
  189. help
  190. This option enables support for relay interface support in
  191. certain file systems (such as debugfs).
  192. It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
  193. facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
  194. user space.
  195. If unsure, say N.
  196. source "usr/Kconfig"
  197. config UID16
  198. bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
  199. depends on ARM || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
  200. default y
  201. help
  202. This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
  203. config VM86
  204. depends X86
  205. default y
  206. bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
  207. help
  208. This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
  209. code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
  210. XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
  211. option saves about 6k.
  212. config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
  213. bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
  214. default y
  215. depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL
  216. help
  217. Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
  218. resulting in a smaller kernel.
  219. WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
  220. option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
  221. If unsure, say N.
  222. menuconfig EMBEDDED
  223. bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
  224. help
  225. This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
  226. to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
  227. environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
  228. Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
  229. config KALLSYMS
  230. bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED
  231. default y
  232. help
  233. Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
  234. symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
  235. somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
  236. config KALLSYMS_ALL
  237. bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
  238. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
  239. help
  240. Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
  241. OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
  242. symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
  243. and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
  244. Say N.
  245. config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
  246. bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
  247. depends on KALLSYMS
  248. help
  249. If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
  250. inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
  251. turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
  252. Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
  253. reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
  254. you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
  255. config HOTPLUG
  256. bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
  257. default y
  258. help
  259. This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
  260. capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
  261. disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
  262. dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
  263. config PRINTK
  264. default y
  265. bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
  266. help
  267. This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
  268. eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
  269. and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
  270. very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
  271. strongly discouraged.
  272. config BUG
  273. bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
  274. default y
  275. help
  276. Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
  277. the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
  278. numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
  279. option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
  280. Just say Y.
  281. config ELF_CORE
  282. default y
  283. bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
  284. help
  285. Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
  286. config BASE_FULL
  287. default y
  288. bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
  289. help
  290. Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
  291. kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
  292. but may reduce performance.
  293. config FUTEX
  294. bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
  295. default y
  296. help
  297. Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
  298. support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
  299. run glibc-based applications correctly.
  300. config EPOLL
  301. bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
  302. default y
  303. help
  304. Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
  305. support for epoll family of system calls.
  306. config SHMEM
  307. bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
  308. default y
  309. depends on MMU
  310. help
  311. The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
  312. It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
  313. to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
  314. option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
  315. which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
  316. config SLAB
  317. default y
  318. bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if EMBEDDED
  319. help
  320. Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
  321. kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
  322. SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
  323. more susceptible to fragmentation.
  324. endmenu # General setup
  325. config TINY_SHMEM
  326. default !SHMEM
  327. bool
  328. config BASE_SMALL
  329. int
  330. default 0 if BASE_FULL
  331. default 1 if !BASE_FULL
  332. config SLOB
  333. default !SLAB
  334. bool
  335. config OBSOLETE_INTERMODULE
  336. tristate
  337. menu "Loadable module support"
  338. config MODULES
  339. bool "Enable loadable module support"
  340. help
  341. Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
  342. be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
  343. permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
  344. tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
  345. many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
  346. answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
  347. useful for infrequently used options which are not required
  348. for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
  349. modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
  350. If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
  351. modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
  352. where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
  353. this).
  354. If unsure, say Y.
  355. config MODULE_UNLOAD
  356. bool "Module unloading"
  357. depends on MODULES
  358. help
  359. Without this option you will not be able to unload any
  360. modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
  361. anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
  362. simpler. If unsure, say Y.
  363. config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
  364. bool "Forced module unloading"
  365. depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
  366. help
  367. This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
  368. kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
  369. without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
  370. rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
  371. If unsure, say N.
  372. config MODVERSIONS
  373. bool "Module versioning support"
  374. depends on MODULES
  375. help
  376. Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
  377. Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
  378. compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
  379. to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
  380. make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
  381. unsure, say N.
  382. config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
  383. bool "Source checksum for all modules"
  384. depends on MODULES
  385. help
  386. Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
  387. field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
  388. sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
  389. see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
  390. others sometimes change the module source without updating
  391. the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
  392. will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
  393. config KMOD
  394. bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
  395. depends on MODULES
  396. help
  397. Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
  398. be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
  399. "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
  400. here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
  401. automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
  402. runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
  403. loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
  404. config STOP_MACHINE
  405. bool
  406. default y
  407. depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
  408. help
  409. Need stop_machine() primitive.
  410. endmenu
  411. menu "Block layer"
  412. source "block/Kconfig"
  413. endmenu