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  1. config DEFCONFIG_LIST
  2. string
  3. depends on !UML
  4. option defconfig_list
  5. default "/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config"
  6. default "/etc/kernel-config"
  7. default "/boot/config-$UNAME_RELEASE"
  8. default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
  9. menu "General setup"
  10. config EXPERIMENTAL
  11. bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
  12. ---help---
  13. Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
  14. drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
  15. of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
  16. testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
  17. known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
  18. currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
  19. uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
  20. avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
  21. testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
  22. may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
  23. in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
  24. with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
  25. (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
  26. <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
  27. <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
  28. <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
  29. This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
  30. drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
  31. scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
  32. Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
  33. falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
  34. using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
  35. cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
  36. you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
  37. drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
  38. config BROKEN
  39. bool
  40. config BROKEN_ON_SMP
  41. bool
  42. depends on BROKEN || !SMP
  43. default y
  44. config LOCK_KERNEL
  45. bool
  46. depends on SMP || PREEMPT
  47. default y
  48. config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
  49. int
  50. default 32 if !UML
  51. default 128 if UML
  52. help
  53. Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
  54. variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
  55. config LOCALVERSION
  56. string "Local version - append to kernel release"
  57. help
  58. Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
  59. This will show up when you type uname, for example.
  60. The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
  61. any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
  62. object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
  63. be a maximum of 64 characters.
  64. config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
  65. bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
  66. default y
  67. help
  68. This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
  69. release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
  70. top of tree revision.
  71. A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
  72. if a git-based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
  73. appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
  74. set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
  75. (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
  76. by running the command:
  77. $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
  78. which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
  79. config SWAP
  80. bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
  81. depends on MMU && BLOCK
  82. default y
  83. help
  84. This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
  85. for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
  86. used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
  87. in your computer. If unsure say Y.
  88. config SYSVIPC
  89. bool "System V IPC"
  90. ---help---
  91. Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
  92. system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
  93. exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
  94. and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
  95. you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
  96. DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
  97. you'll need to say Y here.
  98. You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
  99. section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
  100. <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
  101. config SYSVIPC_SYSCTL
  102. bool
  103. depends on SYSVIPC
  104. depends on SYSCTL
  105. default y
  106. config POSIX_MQUEUE
  107. bool "POSIX Message Queues"
  108. depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
  109. ---help---
  110. POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
  111. queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
  112. of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
  113. programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
  114. queues (functions mq_*) say Y here.
  115. POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
  116. and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
  117. operations on message queues.
  118. If unsure, say Y.
  119. config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
  120. bool "BSD Process Accounting"
  121. help
  122. If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
  123. kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
  124. information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
  125. that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
  126. information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
  127. command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
  128. list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
  129. up to the user level program to do useful things with this
  130. information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
  131. config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
  132. bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
  133. depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
  134. default n
  135. help
  136. If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
  137. in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
  138. process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
  139. with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
  140. for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
  141. at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
  142. config TASKSTATS
  143. bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  144. depends on NET
  145. default n
  146. help
  147. Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
  148. generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
  149. statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
  150. responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
  151. space on task exit.
  152. Say N if unsure.
  153. config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
  154. bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  155. depends on TASKSTATS
  156. help
  157. Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
  158. resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
  159. in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
  160. relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
  161. Say N if unsure.
  162. config TASK_XACCT
  163. bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  164. depends on TASKSTATS
  165. help
  166. Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
  167. to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
  168. Say N if unsure.
  169. config TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING
  170. bool "Enable per-task storage I/O accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  171. depends on TASK_XACCT
  172. help
  173. Collect information on the number of bytes of storage I/O which this
  174. task has caused.
  175. Say N if unsure.
  176. config USER_NS
  177. bool "User Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  178. default n
  179. depends on EXPERIMENTAL
  180. help
  181. Support user namespaces. This allows containers, i.e.
  182. vservers, to use user namespaces to provide different
  183. user info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
  184. config PID_NS
  185. bool "PID Namespaces (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  186. default n
  187. depends on EXPERIMENTAL
  188. help
  189. Suport process id namespaces. This allows having multiple
  190. process with the same pid as long as they are in different
  191. pid namespaces. This is a building block of containers.
  192. Unless you want to work with an experimental feature
  193. say N here.
  194. config AUDIT
  195. bool "Auditing support"
  196. depends on NET
  197. help
  198. Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
  199. kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
  200. logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
  201. auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
  202. config AUDITSYSCALL
  203. bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
  204. depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
  205. default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
  206. help
  207. Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
  208. can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
  209. such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
  210. ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
  211. config AUDIT_TREE
  212. def_bool y
  213. depends on AUDITSYSCALL && INOTIFY
  214. config IKCONFIG
  215. tristate "Kernel .config support"
  216. ---help---
  217. This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
  218. contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
  219. of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
  220. on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
  221. image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
  222. input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
  223. It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
  224. /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
  225. config IKCONFIG_PROC
  226. bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
  227. depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
  228. ---help---
  229. This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
  230. through /proc/config.gz.
  231. config LOG_BUF_SHIFT
  232. int "Kernel log buffer size (16 => 64KB, 17 => 128KB)"
  233. range 12 21
  234. default 17 if S390 || LOCKDEP
  235. default 16 if X86_NUMAQ || IA64
  236. default 15 if SMP
  237. default 14
  238. help
  239. Select kernel log buffer size as a power of 2.
  240. Defaults and Examples:
  241. 17 => 128 KB for S/390
  242. 16 => 64 KB for x86 NUMAQ or IA-64
  243. 15 => 32 KB for SMP
  244. 14 => 16 KB for uniprocessor
  245. 13 => 8 KB
  246. 12 => 4 KB
  247. config CGROUPS
  248. bool "Control Group support"
  249. help
  250. This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
  251. such as Cpusets
  252. Say N if unsure.
  253. config CGROUP_DEBUG
  254. bool "Example debug cgroup subsystem"
  255. depends on CGROUPS
  256. help
  257. This option enables a simple cgroup subsystem that
  258. exports useful debugging information about the cgroups
  259. framework
  260. Say N if unsure
  261. config CGROUP_NS
  262. bool "Namespace cgroup subsystem"
  263. depends on CGROUPS
  264. help
  265. Provides a simple namespace cgroup subsystem to
  266. provide hierarchical naming of sets of namespaces,
  267. for instance virtual servers and checkpoint/restart
  268. jobs.
  269. config CPUSETS
  270. bool "Cpuset support"
  271. depends on SMP && CGROUPS
  272. help
  273. This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
  274. allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
  275. Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
  276. This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
  277. Say N if unsure.
  278. config FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
  279. bool "Fair group CPU scheduler"
  280. default y
  281. help
  282. This feature lets CPU scheduler recognize task groups and control CPU
  283. bandwidth allocation to such task groups.
  284. choice
  285. depends on FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
  286. prompt "Basis for grouping tasks"
  287. default FAIR_USER_SCHED
  288. config FAIR_USER_SCHED
  289. bool "user id"
  290. help
  291. This option will choose userid as the basis for grouping
  292. tasks, thus providing equal CPU bandwidth to each user.
  293. config FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED
  294. bool "Control groups"
  295. depends on CGROUPS
  296. help
  297. This option allows you to create arbitrary task groups
  298. using the "cgroup" pseudo filesystem and control
  299. the cpu bandwidth allocated to each such task group.
  300. Refer to Documentation/cgroups.txt for more information
  301. on "cgroup" pseudo filesystem.
  302. endchoice
  303. config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
  304. bool "Create deprecated sysfs files"
  305. default y
  306. help
  307. This option creates deprecated symlinks such as the
  308. "device"-link, the <subsystem>:<name>-link, and the
  309. "bus"-link. It may also add deprecated key in the
  310. uevent environment.
  311. None of these features or values should be used today, as
  312. they export driver core implementation details to userspace
  313. or export properties which can't be kept stable across kernel
  314. releases.
  315. If enabled, this option will also move any device structures
  316. that belong to a class, back into the /sys/class hierarchy, in
  317. order to support older versions of udev.
  318. If you are using a distro that was released in 2006 or later,
  319. it should be safe to say N here.
  320. config PROC_PID_CPUSET
  321. bool "Include legacy /proc/<pid>/cpuset file"
  322. depends on CPUSETS
  323. default y
  324. config RELAY
  325. bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
  326. help
  327. This option enables support for relay interface support in
  328. certain file systems (such as debugfs).
  329. It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
  330. facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
  331. user space.
  332. If unsure, say N.
  333. config BLK_DEV_INITRD
  334. bool "Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support"
  335. depends on BROKEN || !FRV
  336. help
  337. The initial RAM filesystem is a ramfs which is loaded by the
  338. boot loader (loadlin or lilo) and that is mounted as root
  339. before the normal boot procedure. It is typically used to
  340. load modules needed to mount the "real" root file system,
  341. etc. See <file:Documentation/initrd.txt> for details.
  342. If RAM disk support (BLK_DEV_RAM) is also included, this
  343. also enables initial RAM disk (initrd) support and adds
  344. 15 Kbytes (more on some other architectures) to the kernel size.
  345. If unsure say Y.
  346. if BLK_DEV_INITRD
  347. source "usr/Kconfig"
  348. endif
  349. config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
  350. bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
  351. default y
  352. depends on ARM || H8300 || SUPERH || EXPERIMENTAL
  353. help
  354. Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
  355. resulting in a smaller kernel.
  356. WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
  357. option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
  358. If unsure, say N.
  359. config SYSCTL
  360. bool
  361. menuconfig EMBEDDED
  362. bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
  363. help
  364. This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
  365. to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
  366. environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
  367. Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
  368. config UID16
  369. bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
  370. depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
  371. default y
  372. help
  373. This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
  374. config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
  375. bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
  376. default y
  377. select SYSCTL
  378. ---help---
  379. sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
  380. to properly maintain and use. The interface in /proc/sys
  381. using paths with ascii names is now the primary path to this
  382. information.
  383. Almost nothing using the binary sysctl interface so if you are
  384. trying to save some space it is probably safe to disable this,
  385. making your kernel marginally smaller.
  386. If unsure say Y here.
  387. config KALLSYMS
  388. bool "Load all symbols for debugging/ksymoops" if EMBEDDED
  389. default y
  390. help
  391. Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
  392. symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
  393. somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
  394. config KALLSYMS_ALL
  395. bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
  396. depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
  397. help
  398. Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
  399. OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
  400. symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
  401. and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
  402. Say N.
  403. config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
  404. bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
  405. depends on KALLSYMS
  406. help
  407. If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
  408. inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
  409. turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
  410. Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
  411. reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
  412. you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
  413. config HOTPLUG
  414. bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
  415. default y
  416. help
  417. This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
  418. capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
  419. disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
  420. dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
  421. config PRINTK
  422. default y
  423. bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
  424. help
  425. This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
  426. eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
  427. and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
  428. very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
  429. strongly discouraged.
  430. config BUG
  431. bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
  432. default y
  433. help
  434. Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
  435. the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
  436. numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
  437. option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
  438. Just say Y.
  439. config ELF_CORE
  440. default y
  441. bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
  442. help
  443. Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
  444. config BASE_FULL
  445. default y
  446. bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
  447. help
  448. Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
  449. kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
  450. but may reduce performance.
  451. config FUTEX
  452. bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
  453. default y
  454. select RT_MUTEXES
  455. help
  456. Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
  457. support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
  458. run glibc-based applications correctly.
  459. config ANON_INODES
  460. bool
  461. config EPOLL
  462. bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
  463. default y
  464. select ANON_INODES
  465. help
  466. Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
  467. support for epoll family of system calls.
  468. config SIGNALFD
  469. bool "Enable signalfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
  470. select ANON_INODES
  471. default y
  472. help
  473. Enable the signalfd() system call that allows to receive signals
  474. on a file descriptor.
  475. If unsure, say Y.
  476. config TIMERFD
  477. bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
  478. select ANON_INODES
  479. depends on BROKEN
  480. default y
  481. help
  482. Enable the timerfd() system call that allows to receive timer
  483. events on a file descriptor.
  484. If unsure, say Y.
  485. config EVENTFD
  486. bool "Enable eventfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
  487. select ANON_INODES
  488. default y
  489. help
  490. Enable the eventfd() system call that allows to receive both
  491. kernel notification (ie. KAIO) or userspace notifications.
  492. If unsure, say Y.
  493. config SHMEM
  494. bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
  495. default y
  496. depends on MMU
  497. help
  498. The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
  499. It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
  500. to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
  501. option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
  502. which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
  503. config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
  504. default y
  505. bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
  506. help
  507. VM event counters are needed for event counts to be shown.
  508. This option allows the disabling of the VM event counters
  509. on EMBEDDED systems. /proc/vmstat will only show page counts
  510. if VM event counters are disabled.
  511. config SLUB_DEBUG
  512. default y
  513. bool "Enable SLUB debugging support" if EMBEDDED
  514. depends on SLUB
  515. help
  516. SLUB has extensive debug support features. Disabling these can
  517. result in significant savings in code size. This also disables
  518. SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be
  519. no support for cache validation etc.
  520. choice
  521. prompt "Choose SLAB allocator"
  522. default SLUB
  523. help
  524. This option allows to select a slab allocator.
  525. config SLAB
  526. bool "SLAB"
  527. help
  528. The regular slab allocator that is established and known to work
  529. well in all environments. It organizes cache hot objects in
  530. per cpu and per node queues. SLAB is the default choice for
  531. a slab allocator.
  532. config SLUB
  533. bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)"
  534. help
  535. SLUB is a slab allocator that minimizes cache line usage
  536. instead of managing queues of cached objects (SLAB approach).
  537. Per cpu caching is realized using slabs of objects instead
  538. of queues of objects. SLUB can use memory efficiently
  539. and has enhanced diagnostics.
  540. config SLOB
  541. depends on EMBEDDED
  542. bool "SLOB (Simple Allocator)"
  543. help
  544. SLOB replaces the SLAB allocator with a drastically simpler
  545. allocator. SLOB is more space efficient than SLAB but does not
  546. scale well (single lock for all operations) and is also highly
  547. susceptible to fragmentation. SLUB can accomplish a higher object
  548. density. It is usually better to use SLUB instead of SLOB.
  549. endchoice
  550. endmenu # General setup
  551. config RT_MUTEXES
  552. boolean
  553. select PLIST
  554. config TINY_SHMEM
  555. default !SHMEM
  556. bool
  557. config BASE_SMALL
  558. int
  559. default 0 if BASE_FULL
  560. default 1 if !BASE_FULL
  561. menuconfig MODULES
  562. bool "Enable loadable module support"
  563. help
  564. Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
  565. be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
  566. permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
  567. tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
  568. many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
  569. answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
  570. useful for infrequently used options which are not required
  571. for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
  572. modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
  573. If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
  574. modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
  575. where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
  576. this).
  577. If unsure, say Y.
  578. config MODULE_UNLOAD
  579. bool "Module unloading"
  580. depends on MODULES
  581. help
  582. Without this option you will not be able to unload any
  583. modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
  584. anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
  585. simpler. If unsure, say Y.
  586. config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
  587. bool "Forced module unloading"
  588. depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
  589. help
  590. This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
  591. kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
  592. without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
  593. rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
  594. If unsure, say N.
  595. config MODVERSIONS
  596. bool "Module versioning support"
  597. depends on MODULES
  598. help
  599. Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
  600. Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
  601. compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
  602. to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
  603. make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
  604. unsure, say N.
  605. config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
  606. bool "Source checksum for all modules"
  607. depends on MODULES
  608. help
  609. Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
  610. field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
  611. sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
  612. see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
  613. others sometimes change the module source without updating
  614. the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
  615. will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
  616. config KMOD
  617. bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
  618. depends on MODULES
  619. help
  620. Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
  621. be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
  622. "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
  623. here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
  624. automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
  625. runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
  626. loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
  627. config STOP_MACHINE
  628. bool
  629. default y
  630. depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
  631. help
  632. Need stop_machine() primitive.
  633. source "block/Kconfig"
  634. config PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS
  635. bool