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author | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2007-05-30 23:57:05 -0500 |
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committer | James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> | 2007-05-30 23:57:05 -0500 |
commit | 5bc65793cbf8da0d35f19ef025dda22887e79e80 (patch) | |
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[SCSI] Merge up to linux-2.6 head
Conflicts:
drivers/scsi/jazz_esp.c
Same changes made by both SCSI and SPARC trees: problem with UTF-8
conversion in the copyright.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index afc286775891..b49b92edb396 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -495,29 +495,40 @@ re-formatting you may want to take a look at the man page. But remember: "indent" is not a fix for bad programming. - Chapter 10: Configuration-files + Chapter 10: Kconfig configuration files -For configuration options (arch/xxx/Kconfig, and all the Kconfig files), -somewhat different indentation is used. +For all of the Kconfig* configuration files throughout the source tree, +the indentation is somewhat different. Lines under a "config" definition +are indented with one tab, while help text is indented an additional two +spaces. Example: -Help text is indented with 2 spaces. - -if CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL - tristate CONFIG_BOOM - default n - help - Apply nitroglycerine inside the keyboard (DANGEROUS) - bool CONFIG_CHEER - depends on CONFIG_BOOM - default y +config AUDIT + bool "Auditing support" + depends on NET help - Output nice messages when you explode -endif + Enable auditing infrastructure that can be used with another + kernel subsystem, such as SELinux (which requires this for + logging of avc messages output). Does not do system-call + auditing without CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL. + +Features that might still be considered unstable should be defined as +dependent on "EXPERIMENTAL": + +config SLUB + depends on EXPERIMENTAL && !ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT + bool "SLUB (Unqueued Allocator)" + ... + +while seriously dangerous features (such as write support for certain +filesystems) should advertise this prominently in their prompt string: + +config ADFS_FS_RW + bool "ADFS write support (DANGEROUS)" + depends on ADFS_FS + ... -Generally, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL should surround all options not considered -stable. All options that are known to trash data (experimental write- -support for file-systems, for instance) should be denoted (DANGEROUS), other -experimental options should be denoted (EXPERIMENTAL). +For full documentation on the configuration files, see the file +Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt. Chapter 11: Data structures |