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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32 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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)"
95 depends on MMU
96 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
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700185config AUDIT
186 bool "Auditing support"
Chris Wright804a6a492005-05-11 10:52:45 +0100187 depends on NET
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700188 help
189 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
190 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
191 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
192 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
193
194config AUDITSYSCALL
195 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Martin Schwidefsky347a8dc2006-01-06 00:19:28 -0800196 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700197 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
198 help
199 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
200 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
Amy Griffisf368c07d2006-04-07 16:55:56 -0400201 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
202 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700203
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700204config IKCONFIG
205 bool "Kernel .config support"
206 ---help---
207 This option enables the complete Linux kernel ".config" file
208 contents to be saved in the kernel. It provides documentation
209 of which kernel options are used in a running kernel or in an
210 on-disk kernel. This information can be extracted from the kernel
211 image file with the script scripts/extract-ikconfig and used as
212 input to rebuild the current kernel or to build another kernel.
213 It can also be extracted from a running kernel by reading
214 /proc/config.gz if enabled (below).
215
216config IKCONFIG_PROC
217 bool "Enable access to .config through /proc/config.gz"
218 depends on IKCONFIG && PROC_FS
219 ---help---
220 This option enables access to the kernel configuration file
221 through /proc/config.gz.
222
223config CPUSETS
224 bool "Cpuset support"
225 depends on SMP
226 help
Randy Dunlapd9fd8a62005-07-27 11:45:11 -0700227 This option will let you create and manage CPUSETs which
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700228 allow dynamically partitioning a system into sets of CPUs and
229 Memory Nodes and assigning tasks to run only within those sets.
230 This is primarily useful on large SMP or NUMA systems.
231
232 Say N if unsure.
233
Jens Axboeb86ff9812006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100234config RELAY
235 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
236 help
237 This option enables support for relay interface support in
238 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
239 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
240 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
241 user space.
242
243 If unsure, say N.
244
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200245source "usr/Kconfig"
246
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800247config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
248 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
249 default y
250 depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800251 help
252 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
253 resulting in a smaller kernel.
254
255 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
256 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
257
258 If unsure, say N.
259
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700260menuconfig EMBEDDED
261 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
262 help
263 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
264 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
265 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
266 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
267
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700268config UID16
269 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
270 depends on ARM || CRIS || FRV || H8300 || X86_32 || M68K || (S390 && !64BIT) || SUPERH || SPARC32 || (SPARC64 && SPARC32_COMPAT) || UML || (X86_64 && IA32_EMULATION)
271 default y
272 help
273 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
274
275config SYSCTL
276 bool "Sysctl support" if EMBEDDED
277 default y
278 ---help---
279 The sysctl interface provides a means of dynamically changing
280 certain kernel parameters and variables on the fly without requiring
281 a recompile of the kernel or reboot of the system. The primary
282 interface consists of a system call, but if you say Y to "/proc
283 file system support", a tree of modifiable sysctl entries will be
284 generated beneath the /proc/sys directory. They are explained in the
285 files in <file:Documentation/sysctl/>. Note that enabling this
286 option will enlarge the kernel by at least 8 KB.
287
288 As it is generally a good thing, you should say Y here unless
289 building a kernel for install/rescue disks or your system is very
290 limited in memory.
291
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700292config KALLSYMS
293 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED
294 default y
295 help
296 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
297 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
298 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
299
300config KALLSYMS_ALL
301 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
302 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
303 help
304 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
305 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
Jesper Juhlf9f97bc2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200306 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
307 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700308
309 Say N.
310
311config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
312 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
313 depends on KALLSYMS
314 help
315 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
316 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
317 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
318 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
319 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
320 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
321
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700322
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800323config HOTPLUG
324 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
325 default y
326 help
327 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
328 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
329 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
330 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
331
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700332config PRINTK
333 default y
334 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
335 help
336 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
337 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
338 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
339 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
340 strongly discouraged.
341
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700342config BUG
343 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
344 default y
345 help
346 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
347 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
348 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
349 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
350 Just say Y.
351
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800352config ELF_CORE
353 default y
354 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
355 help
356 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700358config BASE_FULL
359 default y
360 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
361 help
362 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
363 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
364 but may reduce performance.
365
366config FUTEX
367 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
368 default y
Ingo Molnar23f78d4a2006-06-27 02:54:53 -0700369 select RT_MUTEXES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700370 help
371 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
372 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
373 run glibc-based applications correctly.
374
375config EPOLL
376 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
377 default y
378 help
379 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
380 support for epoll family of system calls.
381
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700382config SHMEM
383 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
384 default y
385 depends on MMU
386 help
387 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
388 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
389 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
390 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
391 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
392
Matt Mackall10cef602006-01-08 01:01:45 -0800393config SLAB
394 default y
395 bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if EMBEDDED
396 help
397 Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
398 kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
399 SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
400 more susceptible to fragmentation.
401
Christoph Lameterf8891e52006-06-30 01:55:45 -0700402config VM_EVENT_COUNTERS
403 default y
404 bool "Enable VM event counters for /proc/vmstat" if EMBEDDED
405 help
406 VM event counters are only needed to for event counts to be
407 shown. They have no function for the kernel itself. This
408 option allows the disabling of the VM event counters.
409 /proc/vmstat will only show page counts.
410
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700411endmenu # General setup
412
Chuck Ebbertae81f9e2006-09-16 12:15:53 -0700413config RT_MUTEXES
414 boolean
415 select PLIST
416
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700417config TINY_SHMEM
418 default !SHMEM
419 bool
420
421config BASE_SMALL
422 int
423 default 0 if BASE_FULL
424 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
425
Matt Mackall10cef602006-01-08 01:01:45 -0800426config SLOB
427 default !SLAB
428 bool
429
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700430menu "Loadable module support"
431
432config MODULES
433 bool "Enable loadable module support"
434 help
435 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
436 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
437 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
438 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
439 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
440 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
441 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
442 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
443 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
444
445 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
446 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
447 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
448 this).
449
450 If unsure, say Y.
451
452config MODULE_UNLOAD
453 bool "Module unloading"
454 depends on MODULES
455 help
456 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
457 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
458 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
459 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
460
461config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
462 bool "Forced module unloading"
463 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
464 help
465 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
466 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
467 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
468 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
469 If unsure, say N.
470
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700471config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100472 bool "Module versioning support"
473 depends on MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700474 help
475 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
476 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
477 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
478 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
479 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
480 unsure, say N.
481
482config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
483 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
484 depends on MODULES
485 help
486 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
487 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
488 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
489 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
490 others sometimes change the module source without updating
491 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
492 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
493
494config KMOD
495 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
496 depends on MODULES
497 help
498 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
499 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
500 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
501 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
502 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
503 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
504 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
505
506config STOP_MACHINE
507 bool
508 default y
509 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
510 help
511 Need stop_machine() primitive.
512endmenu
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100513
514menu "Block layer"
515source "block/Kconfig"
516endmenu