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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001menu "Code maturity level options"
2
3config EXPERIMENTAL
4 bool "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers"
5 ---help---
6 Some of the various things that Linux supports (such as network
7 drivers, file systems, network protocols, etc.) can be in a state
8 of development where the functionality, stability, or the level of
9 testing is not yet high enough for general use. This is usually
10 known as the "alpha-test" phase among developers. If a feature is
11 currently in alpha-test, then the developers usually discourage
12 uninformed widespread use of this feature by the general public to
13 avoid "Why doesn't this work?" type mail messages. However, active
14 testing and use of these systems is welcomed. Just be aware that it
15 may not meet the normal level of reliability or it may fail to work
16 in some special cases. Detailed bug reports from people familiar
17 with the kernel internals are usually welcomed by the developers
18 (before submitting bug reports, please read the documents
19 <file:README>, <file:MAINTAINERS>, <file:REPORTING-BUGS>,
20 <file:Documentation/BUG-HUNTING>, and
21 <file:Documentation/oops-tracing.txt> in the kernel source).
22
23 This option will also make obsoleted drivers available. These are
24 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are
25 scheduled to be removed in a future kernel release.
26
27 Unless you intend to help test and develop a feature or driver that
28 falls into this category, or you have a situation that requires
29 using these features, you should probably say N here, which will
30 cause the configurator to present you with fewer choices. If
31 you say Y here, you will be offered the choice of using features or
32 drivers that are currently considered to be in the alpha-test phase.
33
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070034config BROKEN
35 bool
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070036
37config BROKEN_ON_SMP
38 bool
39 depends on BROKEN || !SMP
40 default y
41
42config LOCK_KERNEL
43 bool
44 depends on SMP || PREEMPT
45 default y
46
47config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
48 int
49 default 32 if !USERMODE
50 default 128 if USERMODE
51 help
Randy Dunlap34ad92c2005-10-30 15:01:46 -080052 Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
53 variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070054
55endmenu
56
57menu "General setup"
58
59config LOCALVERSION
60 string "Local version - append to kernel release"
61 help
62 Append an extra string to the end of your kernel version.
63 This will show up when you type uname, for example.
64 The string you set here will be appended after the contents of
65 any files with a filename matching localversion* in your
66 object and source tree, in that order. Your total string can
67 be a maximum of 64 characters.
68
Ryan Andersonaaebf432005-07-31 04:57:49 -040069config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
70 bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
71 default y
72 help
73 This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
74 release tree by looking for git tags that
75 belong to the current top of tree revision.
76
77 A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
78 if a git based tree is found. The string generated by this will be
79 appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
80 set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
81
82 Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
83 the git or cogito tools to be installed.
84
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070085config SWAP
86 bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
87 depends on MMU
88 default y
89 help
90 This option allows you to choose whether you want to have support
Jesper Juhl92c35042006-01-15 02:40:08 +010091 for so called swap devices or swap files in your kernel that are
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070092 used to provide more virtual memory than the actual RAM present
93 in your computer. If unsure say Y.
94
95config SYSVIPC
96 bool "System V IPC"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070097 ---help---
98 Inter Process Communication is a suite of library functions and
99 system calls which let processes (running programs) synchronize and
100 exchange information. It is generally considered to be a good thing,
101 and some programs won't run unless you say Y here. In particular, if
102 you want to run the DOS emulator dosemu under Linux (read the
103 DOSEMU-HOWTO, available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>),
104 you'll need to say Y here.
105
106 You can find documentation about IPC with "info ipc" and also in
107 section 6.4 of the Linux Programmer's Guide, available from
108 <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>.
109
110config POSIX_MQUEUE
111 bool "POSIX Message Queues"
112 depends on NET && EXPERIMENTAL
113 ---help---
114 POSIX variant of message queues is a part of IPC. In POSIX message
115 queues every message has a priority which decides about succession
116 of receiving it by a process. If you want to compile and run
117 programs written e.g. for Solaris with use of its POSIX message
118 queues (functions mq_*) say Y here. To use this feature you will
119 also need mqueue library, available from
120 <http://www.mat.uni.torun.pl/~wrona/posix_ipc/>
121
122 POSIX message queues are visible as a filesystem called 'mqueue'
123 and can be mounted somewhere if you want to do filesystem
124 operations on message queues.
125
126 If unsure, say Y.
127
128config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
129 bool "BSD Process Accounting"
130 help
131 If you say Y here, a user level program will be able to instruct the
132 kernel (via a special system call) to write process accounting
133 information to a file: whenever a process exits, information about
134 that process will be appended to the file by the kernel. The
135 information includes things such as creation time, owning user,
136 command name, memory usage, controlling terminal etc. (the complete
137 list is in the struct acct in <file:include/linux/acct.h>). It is
138 up to the user level program to do useful things with this
139 information. This is generally a good idea, so say Y.
140
141config BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3
142 bool "BSD Process Accounting version 3 file format"
143 depends on BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
144 default n
145 help
146 If you say Y here, the process accounting information is written
147 in a new file format that also logs the process IDs of each
148 process and it's parent. Note that this file format is incompatible
149 with previous v0/v1/v2 file formats, so you will need updated tools
150 for processing it. A preliminary version of these tools is available
151 at <http://www.physik3.uni-rostock.de/tim/kernel/utils/acct/>.
152
153config SYSCTL
154 bool "Sysctl support"
155 ---help---
156 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
157 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
158 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
159 interface consists of a system call, but if you say Y to "/proc
160 file system support", a tree of modifiable sysctl entries will be
161 generated beneath the /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the
162 files in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
163 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
164
165 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
166 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
167 limited in memory.
168
169config AUDIT
170 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a492005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100171 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700172 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
173 help
174 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
175 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
176 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
177 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
178
179config AUDITSYSCALL
180 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Martin Schwidefsky347a8dc2006-01-06 00:19:28 -0800181 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700182 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
183 help
184 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
185 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
186 such as SELinux.
187
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700188config IKCONFIG
189 bool "Kernel .config support"
190 ---help---
191 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
192 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
193 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
194 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
195 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
196 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
197 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
198 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
199
200config IKCONFIG_PROC
201 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
202 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
203 ---help---
204 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
205 through /proc/config.gz.
206
207config CPUSETS
208 bool "Cpuset support"
209 depends on SMP
210 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700211 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700212 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
213 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
214 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
215
216 Say N if unsure.
217
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200218source "usr/Kconfig"
219
Matt Mackalle585e472006-01-08 01:05:24 -0800220config UID16
221 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk2308acc2006-01-09 20:51:26 -0800222 depends on ARM || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
Matt Mackalle585e472006-01-08 01:05:24 -0800223 default y
224 help
225 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
226
Matt Mackall64ca9002006-01-08 01:05:26 -0800227config VM86
228 depends X86
229 default y
230 bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
231 help
232 This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
233 code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
234 XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
235 option saves about 6k.
236
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800237config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
238 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
239 default y
240 depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800241 help
242 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
243 resulting in a smaller kernel.
244
245 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
246 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
247
248 If unsure, say N.
249
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700250menuconfig EMBEDDED
251 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
252 help
253 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
254 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
255 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
256 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
257
258config KALLSYMS
259 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED
260 default y
261 help
262 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
263 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
264 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
265
266config KALLSYMS_ALL
267 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
268 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
269 help
270 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
271 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
Jesper Juhlf9f97bc2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200272 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
273 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700274
275 Say N.
276
277config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
278 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
279 depends on KALLSYMS
280 help
281 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
282 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
283 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
284 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
285 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
286 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
287
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700288
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800289config HOTPLUG
290 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
291 default y
292 help
293 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
294 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
295 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
296 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
297
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700298config PRINTK
299 default y
300 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
301 help
302 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
303 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
304 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
305 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
306 strongly discouraged.
307
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700308config BUG
309 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
310 default y
311 help
312 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
313 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
314 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
315 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
316 Just say Y.
317
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800318config ELF_CORE
319 default y
320 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
321 help
322 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
323
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700324config BASE_FULL
325 default y
326 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
327 help
328 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
329 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
330 but may reduce performance.
331
332config FUTEX
333 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
334 default y
335 help
336 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
337 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
338 run glibc-based applications correctly.
339
340config EPOLL
341 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
342 default y
343 help
344 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
345 support for epoll family of system calls.
346
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700347config SHMEM
348 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
349 default y
350 depends on MMU
351 help
352 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
353 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
354 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
355 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
356 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
357
358config CC_ALIGN_FUNCTIONS
359 int "Function alignment" if EMBEDDED
360 default 0
361 help
362 Align the start of functions to the next power-of-two greater than n,
363 skipping up to n bytes. For instance, 32 aligns functions
364 to the next 32-byte boundary, but 24 would align to the next
365 32-byte boundary only if this can be done by skipping 23 bytes or less.
366 Zero means use compiler's default.
367
368config CC_ALIGN_LABELS
369 int "Label alignment" if EMBEDDED
370 default 0
371 help
372 Align all branch targets to a power-of-two boundary, skipping
373 up to n bytes like ALIGN_FUNCTIONS. This option can easily
374 make code slower, because it must insert dummy operations for
375 when the branch target is reached in the usual flow of the code.
376 Zero means use compiler's default.
377
378config CC_ALIGN_LOOPS
379 int "Loop alignment" if EMBEDDED
380 default 0
381 help
382 Align loops to a power-of-two boundary, skipping up to n bytes.
383 Zero means use compiler's default.
384
385config CC_ALIGN_JUMPS
386 int "Jump alignment" if EMBEDDED
387 default 0
388 help
389 Align branch targets to a power-of-two boundary, for branch
390 targets where the targets can only be reached by jumping,
391 skipping up to n bytes like ALIGN_FUNCTIONS. In this case,
392 no dummy operations need be executed.
393 Zero means use compiler's default.
394
Matt Mackall10cef602006-01-08 01:01:45 -0800395config SLAB
396 default y
397 bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if EMBEDDED
398 help
399 Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
400 kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
401 SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
402 more susceptible to fragmentation.
403
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700404endmenu # General setup
405
406config TINY_SHMEM
407 default !SHMEM
408 bool
409
410config BASE_SMALL
411 int
412 default 0 if BASE_FULL
413 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
414
Matt Mackall10cef602006-01-08 01:01:45 -0800415config SLOB
416 default !SLAB
417 bool
418
Adrian Bunkfd279192006-01-16 22:13:59 -0800419config OBSOLETE_INTERMODULE
420 tristate
421
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700422menu "Loadable module support"
423
424config MODULES
425 bool "Enable loadable module support"
426 help
427 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
428 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
429 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
430 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
431 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
432 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
433 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
434 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
435 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
436
437 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
438 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
439 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
440 this).
441
442 If unsure, say Y.
443
444config MODULE_UNLOAD
445 bool "Module unloading"
446 depends on MODULES
447 help
448 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
449 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
450 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
451 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
452
453config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
454 bool "Forced module unloading"
455 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
456 help
457 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
458 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
459 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
460 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
461 If unsure, say N.
462
463config OBSOLETE_MODPARM
464 bool
465 default y
466 depends on MODULES
467 help
468 You need this option to use module parameters on modules which
469 have not been converted to the new module parameter system yet.
470 If unsure, say Y.
471
472config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100473 bool "Module versioning support"
474 depends on MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700475 help
476 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
477 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
478 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
479 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
480 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
481 unsure, say N.
482
483config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
484 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
485 depends on MODULES
486 help
487 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
488 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
489 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
490 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
491 others sometimes change the module source without updating
492 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
493 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
494
495config KMOD
496 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
497 depends on MODULES
498 help
499 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
500 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
501 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
502 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
503 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
504 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
505 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
506
507config STOP_MACHINE
508 bool
509 default y
510 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
511 help
512 Need stop_machine() primitive.
513endmenu
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100514
515menu "Block layer"
516source "block/Kconfig"
517endmenu