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diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst index dce6801d66c9..c946eb44bd13 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst @@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ The xconfig ('qconf'), menuconfig ('mconf'), and nconfig ('nconf') programs also have embedded help text. Be sure to check that for navigation, search, and other general help text. +The gconfig ('gconf') program has limited help text. + General ------- @@ -41,11 +43,28 @@ KCONFIG_CONFIG This environment variable can be used to specify a default kernel config file name to override the default name of ".config". +KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST +---------------------- + +This environment variable specifies a list of config files which can be used +as a base configuration in case the .config does not exist yet. Entries in +the list are separated with whitespaces to each other, and the first one +that exists is used. + KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG ----------------------- If you set KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG in the environment, Kconfig will not break symlinks when .config is a symlink to somewhere else. +KCONFIG_WARN_UNKNOWN_SYMBOLS +---------------------------- +This environment variable makes Kconfig warn about all unrecognized +symbols in the config input. + +KCONFIG_WERROR +-------------- +If set, Kconfig treats warnings as errors. + `CONFIG_` --------- If you set `CONFIG_` in the environment, Kconfig will prefix all symbols @@ -202,6 +221,10 @@ Searching in menuconfig: first (and in alphabetical order), then come all other symbols, sorted in alphabetical order. + In this menu, pressing the key in the (#) prefix will jump + directly to that location. You will be returned to the current + search results after exiting this new menu. + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- User interface options for 'menuconfig' @@ -254,6 +277,10 @@ Searching in nconfig: F8 (SymSearch) searches the configuration symbols for the given string or regular expression (regex). + In the SymSearch, pressing the key in the (#) prefix will + jump directly to that location. You will be returned to the + current search results after exiting this new menu. + NCONFIG_MODE ------------ This mode shows all sub-menus in one large tree. |