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Roman Zippelface4372006-06-08 22:12:45 -07001config 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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07009menu "Code maturity level options"
10
11config 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32 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070042config BROKEN
43 bool
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070044
45config BROKEN_ON_SMP
46 bool
47 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
48 default y
49
50config LOCK_KERNEL
51 bool
52 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
53 default y
54
55config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
56 int
Adrian Bunkdd673bc2006-06-30 01:55:51 -070057 default 32 if !UML
58 default 128 if UML
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070059 help
Randy Dunlap34ad92c2005-10-30 15:01:46 -080060 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
61 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070062
63endmenu
64
65menu "General setup"
66
67config 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
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040077config 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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070093config SWAP
94 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +020095 depends on MMU && BLOCK
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070096 default y
97 help
98 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +010099 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700100 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
101 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
102
103config SYSVIPC
104 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700105 ---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
118config 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
136config 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
149config 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
Shailabh Nagarc7572492006-07-14 00:24:40 -0700161config TASKSTATS
162 bool "Export task/process statistics through netlink (EXPERIMENTAL)"
163 depends on NET
164 default n
165 help
166 Export selected statistics for tasks/processes through the
167 generic netlink interface. Unlike BSD process accounting, the
168 statistics are available during the lifetime of tasks/processes as
169 responses to commands. Like BSD accounting, they are sent to user
170 space on task exit.
171
172 Say N if unsure.
173
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700174config TASK_DELAY_ACCT
175 bool "Enable per-task delay accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)"
Shailabh Nagar6f449932006-07-14 00:24:41 -0700176 depends on TASKSTATS
Shailabh Nagarca74e922006-07-14 00:24:36 -0700177 help
178 Collect information on time spent by a task waiting for system
179 resources like cpu, synchronous block I/O completion and swapping
180 in pages. Such statistics can help in setting a task's priorities
181 relative to other tasks for cpu, io, rss limits etc.
182
183 Say N if unsure.
184
Serge E. Hallyn4865ecf2006-10-02 02:18:14 -0700185config UTS_NS
186 bool "UTS Namespaces"
187 default n
188 help
189 Support uts namespaces. This allows containers, i.e.
190 vservers, to use uts namespaces to provide different
191 uts info for different servers. If unsure, say N.
192
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700193config AUDIT
194 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a42005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100195 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700196 help
197 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
198 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
199 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
200 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
201
202config AUDITSYSCALL
203 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Martin Schwidefsky347a8dc2006-01-06 00:19:28 -0800204 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700205 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,
Amy Griffisf368c07d2006-04-07 16:55:56 -0400209 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
210 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700211
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700212config IKCONFIG
Ross Birof2443ab2006-09-30 23:27:25 -0700213 tristate "Kernel .config support"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700214 ---help---
215 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
216 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
217 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
218 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
219 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
220 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
221 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
222 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
223
224config IKCONFIG_PROC
225 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
226 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
227 ---help---
228 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
229 through /proc/config.gz.
230
231config CPUSETS
232 bool "Cpuset support"
233 depends on SMP
234 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700235 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700236 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
237 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
238 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
239
240 Say N if unsure.
241
Jens Axboeb86ff982006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100242config RELAY
243 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
244 help
245 This option enables support for relay interface support in
246 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
247 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
248 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
249 user space.
250
251 If unsure, say N.
252
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200253source "usr/Kconfig"
254
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800255config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
256 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
257 default y
258 depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800259 help
260 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
261 resulting in a smaller kernel.
262
263 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
264 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
265
266 If unsure, say N.
267
Jay Lan9acc1852006-09-30 23:28:58 -0700268config TASK_XACCT
269 bool "Enable extended accounting over taskstats (EXPERIMENTAL)"
270 depends on TASKSTATS
271 help
272 Collect extended task accounting data and send the data
273 to userland for processing over the taskstats interface.
274
275 Say N if unsure.
276
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700277config SYSCTL
278 bool
279
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700280menuconfig EMBEDDED
281 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
282 help
283 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
284 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
285 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
286 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
287
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700288config UID16
289 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
290 depends on ARM || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
291 default y
292 help
293 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
294
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700295config SYSCTL_SYSCALL
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700296 bool "Sysctl syscall support" if EMBEDDED
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700297 default n
298 select SYSCTL
299 ---help---
300 Enable the deprecated sysctl system call. sys_sysctl uses
301 binary paths that have been found to be a major pain to maintain
302 and use. The interface in /proc/sys is now the primary and what
303 everyone uses.
304
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700305 Nothing has been using the binary sysctl interface for some
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700306 time now so nothing should break if you disable sysctl syscall
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700307 support, and your kernel will get marginally smaller.
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700308
Randy Dunlap08470622006-09-30 23:28:13 -0700309 Unless you have an application that uses the sys_sysctl interface
Eric W. Biedermanb89a8172006-09-27 01:51:04 -0700310 you should probably say N here.
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700311
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700312config KALLSYMS
313 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED
314 default y
315 help
316 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
317 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
318 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
319
320config KALLSYMS_ALL
321 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
322 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
323 help
324 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
325 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
Jesper Juhlf9f97bc2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200326 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
327 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700328
329 Say N.
330
331config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
332 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
333 depends on KALLSYMS
334 help
335 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
336 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
337 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
338 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
339 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
340 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
341
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700342
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800343config HOTPLUG
344 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
345 default y
346 help
347 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
348 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
349 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
350 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
351
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700352config PRINTK
353 default y
354 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
355 help
356 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
357 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
358 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
359 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
360 strongly discouraged.
361
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700362config BUG
363 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
364 default y
365 help
366 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
367 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
368 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
369 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
370 Just say Y.
371
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800372config ELF_CORE
373 default y
374 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
375 help
376 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
377
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700378config BASE_FULL
379 default y
380 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
381 help
382 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
383 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
384 but may reduce performance.
385
386config FUTEX
387 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
388 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d42006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700389 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700390 help
391 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
392 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
393 run glibc-based applications correctly.
394
395config EPOLL
396 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
397 default y
398 help
399 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
400 support for epoll family of system calls.
401
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700402config SHMEM
403 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
404 default y
405 depends on MMU
406 help
407 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
408 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
409 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
410 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
411 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
412
Matt Mackall10cef602006-01-08 01:01:45 -0800413config SLAB
414 default y
415 bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if EMBEDDED
416 help
417 Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
418 kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
419 SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
420 more susceptible to fragmentation.
421
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700422config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
423 default y
424 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
425 help
426 VM event counters are only needed to for event counts to be
427 shown. They have no function for the kernel itself. This
428 option allows the disabling of the VM event counters.
429 /proc/vmstat will only show page counts.
430
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700431endmenu # General setup
432
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700433config RT_MUTEXES
434 boolean
435 select PLIST
436
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700437config TINY_SHMEM
438 default !SHMEM
439 bool
440
441config BASE_SMALL
442 int
443 default 0 if BASE_FULL
444 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
445
Matt Mackall10cef602006-01-08 01:01:45 -0800446config SLOB
447 default !SLAB
448 bool
449
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700450menu "Loadable module support"
451
452config MODULES
453 bool "Enable loadable module support"
454 help
455 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
456 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
457 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
458 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
459 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
460 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
461 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
462 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
463 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
464
465 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
466 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
467 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
468 this).
469
470 If unsure, say Y.
471
472config MODULE_UNLOAD
473 bool "Module unloading"
474 depends on MODULES
475 help
476 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
477 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
478 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
479 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
480
481config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
482 bool "Forced module unloading"
483 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
484 help
485 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
486 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
487 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
488 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
489 If unsure, say N.
490
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700491config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100492 bool "Module versioning support"
493 depends on MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700494 help
495 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
496 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
497 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
498 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
499 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
500 unsure, say N.
501
502config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
503 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
504 depends on MODULES
505 help
506 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
507 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
508 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
509 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
510 others sometimes change the module source without updating
511 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
512 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
513
514config KMOD
515 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
516 depends on MODULES
517 help
518 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
519 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
520 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
521 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
522 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
523 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
524 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
525
526config STOP_MACHINE
527 bool
528 default y
529 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
530 help
531 Need stop_machine() primitive.
532endmenu
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100533
534menu "Block layer"
535source "block/Kconfig"
536endmenu