Roman Zippel wrote:
> A simple example would be
> help texts, right now they are per symbol, but they should really be per
> menu, so archs can provide different help texts for something.

This patch does this and at the same time introduce a few API
funtions used to access the help text.

The relevant api functions are introduced in the various frontends.
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>

Somewhat in reponse to kernel bugzilla #8197, be more explicit about
why 'make all' fails when there is no .config file.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Run "make xconfig" on a freshly untarred kernel-tree.  Look at the floppy disk
icon of the qt application, that has just started: Its in a normal, active
state.

Mouse click on it: .config is being saved.

This patch series changes things so taht
after the mouse click on the floppy disk icon, the icon is greyed out.
If you mouse click on it now, nothing happens.

If you change some CONFIG_*, the floppy disk icon returns to "active state",
that is, if you mouse click it now, .config is written.

This patch:

Returns sym_change_count to reflect the .config's change state.
All read only accesses of
	sym_change_count
are replaced by calls to
	conf_get_changed()
.
mconfig.c is manipulated to ask for saving only when
conf_get_changed() returned true.
Signed-off-by: NKarsten Wiese <fzu@wemgehoertderstaat.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

If the beginning Kconfig file is missing, config segfaults so it might as
well exit after the error message.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Extend conf_read_simple() so it can load multiple configurations.
Signed-off-by: NRoman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

This fixes one of the worst kbuild warts left - the broken dependencies used
to check and regenerate the .config file.  This was done via an indirect
dependency and the .config itself had an empty command, which can cause make
not to reread the changed .config file.

Instead of this we generate now a new file include/config/auto.conf from
.config, which is used for kbuild and has the proper dependencies.  It's also
the main make target now for all files generated during this step (and thus
replaces include/linux/autoconf.h).

This also means we can now relax the syntax requirements for the .config file
and we don't have to rewrite it all the time, i.e.  silentoldconfig only
writes .config now when it's necessary to keep it in sync with the Kconfig
files and even this can be suppressed by setting the environment variable
KCONFIG_NOSILENTUPDATE, so the update can (and must) be done manually.
Signed-off-by: NRoman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Replace outdated help message with a reference to README.  Update README
for make *config variants and environment variable info.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

After the last patch fixed the real problem, revert this needless behaviour
change of conf, which only hid the real problem.
Signed-off-by: NRoman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

The wrong default value can cause conf to end up in endless loop for choice
questions.
Signed-off-by: NRoman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Signed-off-by: NBen Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Allow to force setting of config variables during all{no,mod,yes,random}config
to a specific value.  For that conf first checks the KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG
environment variable for a file name, otherwise it checks for
all{no,mod,yes,random}.config and all.config.  The file is a normal config
file, which presets the config variables, but they are still subject to normal
dependency checks.
Signed-off-by: NRoman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The restart check whether new symbols became visible, didn't always work for
choice symbols.  Even if a choice symbol itself isn't changable, the childs
are.  This also requires to update the new status of all choice values, once
one of them is set.
Signed-off-by: NRoman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

scripts/ is full of mismatches between char* params an signed char* arguments,
and viceversa.  gcc4 now complaints loud about this.  Patch below deletes all
those 'signed'.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch adds i18n support for make *config, allowing users to have the
config process in their own language.

No printk was harmed in the process, don't worry, so all the bug reports,
kernel messages, etc, remain in english, just the user tools to configure
the kernel are internationalized.

Users not interested in translations can just unset the related LANG,
LC_ALL, etc env variables and have the config process in plain english,
something like:

LANG= make menuconfig

is enough for having the whole config process in english. Or just don't
install any translation file.

Translations for brazilian portuguese are being done by a team of
volunteers at:

http://www.visionflex.inf.br/kernel_ptbr/pmwiki.php/Principal/Traducoes

To start the translation process:

  make update-po-config

  This will generate the pot template named scripts/kconfig/linux.pot,
  copy it to, say, ~/es.po, to start the translation for spanish.

To test your translation, as root issue this command:

  msgfmt -o /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/linux.mo ~/es.po

  Replace "es" with your language code.

  Then execute, for instance:

  make menuconfig

The current patch doesn't use any optimization to reduce the size of the
generated .mo file, it is possible to use the config option as a key, but
this doesn't prevent the current patch from being used or the translations
done under the current scheme to be in any way lost if we chose to do any
kind of keying.

Thanks to Fabricio Vaccari for starting the pt_BR (brazilian portuguese)
translation effort, Thiago Maciera for helping me with the gconf.cc (QT
frontent) i18n coding and to all the volunteers that are already working on
the first translation, to pt_BR.

I left the question on whether to ship the translations with the stock kernel
sources to be discussed here, please share your suggestions.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!