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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24 drivers that have been replaced by something else, and/or are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 Dunlap34ad92c22005-10-30 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 help
173 Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
174 kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for
175 logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call
176 auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL.
177
178config AUDITSYSCALL
179 bool "Enable system-call auditing support"
Martin Schwidefsky347a8dc2006-01-06 00:19:28 -0800180 depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || PPC64 || S390 || IA64 || UML || SPARC64)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700181 default y if SECURITY_SELINUX
182 help
183 Enable low-overhead system-call auditing infrastructure that
184 can be used independently or with another kernel subsystem,
Amy Griffisf368c07d2006-04-07 16:55:56 -0400185 such as SELinux. To use audit's filesystem watch feature, please
186 ensure that INOTIFY is configured.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700187
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
Jens Axboeb86ff9812006-03-23 19:56:55 +0100218config RELAY
219 bool "Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)"
220 help
221 This option enables support for relay interface support in
222 certain file systems (such as debugfs).
223 It is designed to provide an efficient mechanism for tools and
224 facilities to relay large amounts of data from kernel space to
225 user space.
226
227 If unsure, say N.
228
Sam Ravnborgdbec4862005-08-10 20:44:50 +0200229source "usr/Kconfig"
230
Matt Mackalle585e472006-01-08 01:05:24 -0800231config UID16
232 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED
Adrian Bunk2308acc2006-01-09 20:51:26 -0800233 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 -0800234 default y
235 help
236 This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers.
237
Matt Mackall64ca9002006-01-08 01:05:26 -0800238config VM86
239 depends X86
240 default y
241 bool "Enable VM86 support" if EMBEDDED
242 help
243 This option is required by programs like DOSEMU to run 16-bit legacy
244 code on X86 processors. It also may be needed by software like
245 XFree86 to initialize some video cards via BIOS. Disabling this
246 option saves about 6k.
247
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800248config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
249 bool "Optimize for size (Look out for broken compilers!)"
250 default y
251 depends on ARM || H8300 || EXPERIMENTAL
Linus Torvaldsc45b4f12005-12-14 18:52:21 -0800252 help
253 Enabling this option will pass "-Os" instead of "-O2" to gcc
254 resulting in a smaller kernel.
255
256 WARNING: some versions of gcc may generate incorrect code with this
257 option. If problems are observed, a gcc upgrade may be needed.
258
259 If unsure, say N.
260
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700261menuconfig EMBEDDED
262 bool "Configure standard kernel features (for small systems)"
263 help
264 This option allows certain base kernel options and settings
265 to be disabled or tweaked. This is for specialized
266 environments which can tolerate a "non-standard" kernel.
267 Only use this if you really know what you are doing.
268
269config KALLSYMS
270 bool "Load all symbols for debugging/kksymoops" if EMBEDDED
271 default y
272 help
273 Say Y here to let the kernel print out symbolic crash information and
274 symbolic stack backtraces. This increases the size of the kernel
275 somewhat, as all symbols have to be loaded into the kernel image.
276
277config KALLSYMS_ALL
278 bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
279 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
280 help
281 Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
282 OOPS messages. Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
Jesper Juhlf9f97bc2005-07-20 05:43:05 +0200283 symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them
284 and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700285
286 Say N.
287
288config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
289 bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
290 depends on KALLSYMS
291 help
292 If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
293 inconsistent kallsyms data. If that occurs, log a bug report and
294 turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
295 Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
296 reported. KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
297 you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
298
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700299
Greg Kroah-Hartman712f47c2005-11-16 11:27:07 -0800300config HOTPLUG
301 bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EMBEDDED
302 default y
303 help
304 This option is provided for the case where no hotplug or uevent
305 capabilities is wanted by the kernel. You should only consider
306 disabling this option for embedded systems that do not use modules, a
307 dynamic /dev tree, or dynamic device discovery. Just say Y.
308
Matt Mackalld59745c2005-05-01 08:59:02 -0700309config PRINTK
310 default y
311 bool "Enable support for printk" if EMBEDDED
312 help
313 This option enables normal printk support. Removing it
314 eliminates most of the message strings from the kernel image
315 and makes the kernel more or less silent. As this makes it
316 very difficult to diagnose system problems, saying N here is
317 strongly discouraged.
318
Matt Mackallc8538a72005-05-01 08:59:01 -0700319config BUG
320 bool "BUG() support" if EMBEDDED
321 default y
322 help
323 Disabling this option eliminates support for BUG and WARN, reducing
324 the size of your kernel image and potentially quietly ignoring
325 numerous fatal conditions. You should only consider disabling this
326 option for embedded systems with no facilities for reporting errors.
327 Just say Y.
328
Matt Mackall708e9a72006-01-08 01:05:25 -0800329config ELF_CORE
330 default y
331 bool "Enable ELF core dumps" if EMBEDDED
332 help
333 Enable support for generating core dumps. Disabling saves about 4k.
334
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700335config BASE_FULL
336 default y
337 bool "Enable full-sized data structures for core" if EMBEDDED
338 help
339 Disabling this option reduces the size of miscellaneous core
340 kernel data structures. This saves memory on small machines,
341 but may reduce performance.
342
343config FUTEX
344 bool "Enable futex support" if EMBEDDED
345 default y
346 help
347 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
348 support for "fast userspace mutexes". The resulting kernel may not
349 run glibc-based applications correctly.
350
351config EPOLL
352 bool "Enable eventpoll support" if EMBEDDED
353 default y
354 help
355 Disabling this option will cause the kernel to be built without
356 support for epoll family of system calls.
357
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700358config SHMEM
359 bool "Use full shmem filesystem" if EMBEDDED
360 default y
361 depends on MMU
362 help
363 The shmem is an internal filesystem used to manage shared memory.
364 It is backed by swap and manages resource limits. It is also exported
365 to userspace as tmpfs if TMPFS is enabled. Disabling this
366 option replaces shmem and tmpfs with the much simpler ramfs code,
367 which may be appropriate on small systems without swap.
368
Matt Mackall10cef602006-01-08 01:01:45 -0800369config SLAB
370 default y
371 bool "Use full SLAB allocator" if EMBEDDED
372 help
373 Disabling this replaces the advanced SLAB allocator and
374 kmalloc support with the drastically simpler SLOB allocator.
375 SLOB is more space efficient but does not scale well and is
376 more susceptible to fragmentation.
377
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700378endmenu # General setup
379
380config TINY_SHMEM
381 default !SHMEM
382 bool
383
384config BASE_SMALL
385 int
386 default 0 if BASE_FULL
387 default 1 if !BASE_FULL
388
Matt Mackall10cef602006-01-08 01:01:45 -0800389config SLOB
390 default !SLAB
391 bool
392
Adrian Bunkfd279192006-01-16 22:13:59 -0800393config OBSOLETE_INTERMODULE
394 tristate
395
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700396menu "Loadable module support"
397
398config MODULES
399 bool "Enable loadable module support"
400 help
401 Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
402 be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
403 permanently built into the kernel. You use the "modprobe"
404 tool to add (and sometimes remove) them. If you say Y here,
405 many parts of the kernel can be built as modules (by
406 answering M instead of Y where indicated): this is most
407 useful for infrequently used options which are not required
408 for booting. For more information, see the man pages for
409 modprobe, lsmod, modinfo, insmod and rmmod.
410
411 If you say Y here, you will need to run "make
412 modules_install" to put the modules under /lib/modules/
413 where modprobe can find them (you may need to be root to do
414 this).
415
416 If unsure, say Y.
417
418config MODULE_UNLOAD
419 bool "Module unloading"
420 depends on MODULES
421 help
422 Without this option you will not be able to unload any
423 modules (note that some modules may not be unloadable
424 anyway), which makes your kernel slightly smaller and
425 simpler. If unsure, say Y.
426
427config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD
428 bool "Forced module unloading"
429 depends on MODULE_UNLOAD && EXPERIMENTAL
430 help
431 This option allows you to force a module to unload, even if the
432 kernel believes it is unsafe: the kernel will remove the module
433 without waiting for anyone to stop using it (using the -f option to
434 rmmod). This is mainly for kernel developers and desperate users.
435 If unsure, say N.
436
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700437config MODVERSIONS
Sam Ravnborg0d541642005-12-26 23:04:02 +0100438 bool "Module versioning support"
439 depends on MODULES
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700440 help
441 Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel.
442 Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules
443 compiled for different kernels, by adding enough information
444 to the modules to (hopefully) spot any changes which would
445 make them incompatible with the kernel you are running. If
446 unsure, say N.
447
448config MODULE_SRCVERSION_ALL
449 bool "Source checksum for all modules"
450 depends on MODULES
451 help
452 Modules which contain a MODULE_VERSION get an extra "srcversion"
453 field inserted into their modinfo section, which contains a
454 sum of the source files which made it. This helps maintainers
455 see exactly which source was used to build a module (since
456 others sometimes change the module source without updating
457 the version). With this option, such a "srcversion" field
458 will be created for all modules. If unsure, say N.
459
460config KMOD
461 bool "Automatic kernel module loading"
462 depends on MODULES
463 help
464 Normally when you have selected some parts of the kernel to
465 be created as kernel modules, you must load them (using the
466 "modprobe" command) before you can use them. If you say Y
467 here, some parts of the kernel will be able to load modules
468 automatically: when a part of the kernel needs a module, it
469 runs modprobe with the appropriate arguments, thereby
470 loading the module if it is available. If unsure, say Y.
471
472config STOP_MACHINE
473 bool
474 default y
475 depends on (SMP && MODULE_UNLOAD) || HOTPLUG_CPU
476 help
477 Need stop_machine() primitive.
478endmenu
Jens Axboe3a65dfe2005-11-04 08:43:35 +0100479
480menu "Block layer"
481source "block/Kconfig"
482endmenu