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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24 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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
H. Peter Anvineab98702006-06-25 05:48:10 -0700154 bool "Sysctl support" if EMBEDDED
155 default y
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700156 ---help---
157 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
158 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
159 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
160 interface consists of a system call, but if you say Y to "/proc
161 file system support", a tree of modifiable sysctl entries will be
162 generated beneath the /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the
163 files in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
164 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
165
166 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
167 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
168 limited in memory.
169
170config AUDIT
171 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a492005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100172 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700173 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,
Amy Griffisf368c07d2006-04-07 16:55:56 -0400186 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
187 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700188
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700189config IKCONFIG
190 bool "Kernel .config support"
191 ---help---
192 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
193 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
194 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
195 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
196 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
197 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
198 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
199 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
200
201config IKCONFIG_PROC
202 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
203 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
204 ---help---
205 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
206 through /proc/config.gz.
207
208config CPUSETS
209 bool "Cpuset support"
210 depends on SMP
211 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700212 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700213 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
214 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
215 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
216
217 Say N if unsure.
218
Jens Axboeb86ff9812006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100219config RELAY
220 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
221 help
222 This option enables support for relay interface support in
223 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
224 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
225 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
226 user space.
227
228 If unsure, say N.
229
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200230source "usr/Kconfig"
231
Matt Mackalle585e472006-01-08 01:05:24 -0800232config UID16
233 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk2308acc2006-01-09 20:51:26 -0800234 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 -0800235 default y
236 help
237 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
238
Matt Mackall64ca9002006-01-08 01:05:26 -0800239config VM86
240 depends X86
241 default y
242 bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
243 help
244 This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
245 code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
246 XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
247 option saves about 6k.
248
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800249config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
250 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
251 default y
252 depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800253 help
254 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
255 resulting in a smaller kernel.
256
257 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
258 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
259
260 If unsure, say N.
261
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700262menuconfig EMBEDDED
263 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
264 help
265 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
266 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
267 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
268 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
269
270config KALLSYMS
271 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED
272 default y
273 help
274 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
275 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
276 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
277
278config KALLSYMS_ALL
279 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
280 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
281 help
282 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
283 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
Jesper Juhlf9f97bc2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200284 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
285 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700286
287 Say N.
288
289config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
290 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
291 depends on KALLSYMS
292 help
293 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
294 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
295 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
296 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
297 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
298 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
299
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700300
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800301config HOTPLUG
302 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
303 default y
304 help
305 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
306 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
307 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
308 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
309
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700310config PRINTK
311 default y
312 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
313 help
314 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
315 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
316 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
317 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
318 strongly discouraged.
319
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700320config BUG
321 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
322 default y
323 help
324 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
325 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
326 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
327 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
328 Just say Y.
329
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800330config ELF_CORE
331 default y
332 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
333 help
334 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
335
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700336config BASE_FULL
337 default y
338 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
339 help
340 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
341 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
342 but may reduce performance.
343
344config FUTEX
345 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
346 default y
347 help
348 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
349 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
350 run glibc-based applications correctly.
351
352config EPOLL
353 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
354 default y
355 help
356 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
357 support for epoll family of system calls.
358
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700359config SHMEM
360 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
361 default y
362 depends on MMU
363 help
364 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
365 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
366 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
367 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
368 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
369
Matt Mackall10cef602006-01-08 01:01:45 -0800370config SLAB
371 default y
372 bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if EMBEDDED
373 help
374 Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
375 kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
376 SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
377 more susceptible to fragmentation.
378
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700379endmenu # General setup
380
381config TINY_SHMEM
382 default !SHMEM
383 bool
384
385config BASE_SMALL
386 int
387 default 0 if BASE_FULL
388 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
389
Matt Mackall10cef602006-01-08 01:01:45 -0800390config SLOB
391 default !SLAB
392 bool
393
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700394menu "Loadable module support"
395
396config MODULES
397 bool "Enable loadable module support"
398 help
399 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
400 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
401 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
402 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
403 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
404 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
405 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
406 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
407 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
408
409 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
410 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
411 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
412 this).
413
414 If unsure, say Y.
415
416config MODULE_UNLOAD
417 bool "Module unloading"
418 depends on MODULES
419 help
420 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
421 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
422 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
423 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
424
425config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
426 bool "Forced module unloading"
427 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
428 help
429 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
430 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
431 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
432 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
433 If unsure, say N.
434
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700435config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100436 bool "Module versioning support"
437 depends on MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700438 help
439 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
440 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
441 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
442 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
443 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
444 unsure, say N.
445
446config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
447 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
448 depends on MODULES
449 help
450 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
451 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
452 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
453 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
454 others sometimes change the module source without updating
455 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
456 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
457
458config KMOD
459 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
460 depends on MODULES
461 help
462 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
463 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
464 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
465 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
466 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
467 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
468 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
469
470config STOP_MACHINE
471 bool
472 default y
473 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
474 help
475 Need stop_machine() primitive.
476endmenu
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100477
478menu "Block layer"
479source "block/Kconfig"
480endmenu