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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2013-07-10T23:06:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-10T23:06:46+00:00</published>
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Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
 - dependency solver fix for make defconfig
 - randconfig fixes, one of which had to be reverted again
 - more user-friendly sorting of search results
 - hex and range keywords support longs
 - fix for [mn]conf not to rely on particular behavior of the LINES and
   COLS variables
 - cleanup of magic constants in kconfig/lxdialog
 - [mn]conf formatting fixes
 - fix for scripts/config's help text in out-of-tree usage (under a
   different name)

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: allow "hex" and "range" to support longs
  Revert "kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG"
  kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG
  kconfig: loop as long as we changed some symbols in randconfig
  kconfig/[mn]conf: make it explicit in the search box that a regexp is possible
  kconfig: sort found symbols by relevance
  kconfig/conf: print the seed used to initialise the RNG for randconfig
  kconfig/conf: accept a base-16 seed for randconfig
  kconfig/conf: fix randconfig setting multiple symbols in a choice
  scripts/config: replace hard-coded script name by a dynamic value
  mconf/nconf: mark empty menus/menuconfigs different from non-empty ones
  nconf: use function calls instead of ncurses' variables LINES and COLS
  mconf: use function calls instead of ncurses' variables LINES and COLS
  kconfig/lxdialog: handle newline characters in print_autowrap()
  kconfig/lxdialog: Use new mininimum resize definitions in conf_choice()
  kconfig/lxdialog: Add definitions for mininimum (re)size values
  kconfig: Fix defconfig when one choice menu selects options that another choice menu depends on
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Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
 - dependency solver fix for make defconfig
 - randconfig fixes, one of which had to be reverted again
 - more user-friendly sorting of search results
 - hex and range keywords support longs
 - fix for [mn]conf not to rely on particular behavior of the LINES and
   COLS variables
 - cleanup of magic constants in kconfig/lxdialog
 - [mn]conf formatting fixes
 - fix for scripts/config's help text in out-of-tree usage (under a
   different name)

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: allow "hex" and "range" to support longs
  Revert "kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG"
  kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG
  kconfig: loop as long as we changed some symbols in randconfig
  kconfig/[mn]conf: make it explicit in the search box that a regexp is possible
  kconfig: sort found symbols by relevance
  kconfig/conf: print the seed used to initialise the RNG for randconfig
  kconfig/conf: accept a base-16 seed for randconfig
  kconfig/conf: fix randconfig setting multiple symbols in a choice
  scripts/config: replace hard-coded script name by a dynamic value
  mconf/nconf: mark empty menus/menuconfigs different from non-empty ones
  nconf: use function calls instead of ncurses' variables LINES and COLS
  mconf: use function calls instead of ncurses' variables LINES and COLS
  kconfig/lxdialog: handle newline characters in print_autowrap()
  kconfig/lxdialog: Use new mininimum resize definitions in conf_choice()
  kconfig/lxdialog: Add definitions for mininimum (re)size values
  kconfig: Fix defconfig when one choice menu selects options that another choice menu depends on
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<entry>
<title>kconfig: sort found symbols by relevance</title>
<updated>2013-06-24T17:57:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yann E. MORIN</name>
<email>yann.morin.1998@free.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-06T12:57:47+00:00</published>
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When searching for symbols, return the symbols sorted by relevance.

Sorting is done as thus:
  - first, symbols that match exactly
  - then, alphabetical sort

Since the search can be a regexp, it is possible that more than one symbol
matches exactly. In this case, we can't decide which to sort first, so we
fallback to alphabeticall sort.

Explain this (new!) sorting heuristic in the documentation.

Reported-by: Jean Delvare &lt;jdelvare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" &lt;yann.morin.1998@free.fr&gt;
Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;jdelvare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Roland Eggner &lt;edvx1@systemanalysen.net&gt;
Cc: Wang YanQing &lt;udknight@gmail.com&gt;

--
Changes v1-&gt;v2:
  - drop the previous, complex heuristic in favour of a simpler heuristic
    that is both easier to understand, *and* to maintain (Jean)
  - explain sorting heuristic in the doc  (Jean)
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When searching for symbols, return the symbols sorted by relevance.

Sorting is done as thus:
  - first, symbols that match exactly
  - then, alphabetical sort

Since the search can be a regexp, it is possible that more than one symbol
matches exactly. In this case, we can't decide which to sort first, so we
fallback to alphabeticall sort.

Explain this (new!) sorting heuristic in the documentation.

Reported-by: Jean Delvare &lt;jdelvare@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" &lt;yann.morin.1998@free.fr&gt;
Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;jdelvare@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Roland Eggner &lt;edvx1@systemanalysen.net&gt;
Cc: Wang YanQing &lt;udknight@gmail.com&gt;

--
Changes v1-&gt;v2:
  - drop the previous, complex heuristic in favour of a simpler heuristic
    that is both easier to understand, *and* to maintain (Jean)
  - explain sorting heuristic in the doc  (Jean)
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG</title>
<updated>2013-06-03T21:20:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Rothwell</name>
<email>sfr@canb.auug.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-21T03:49:35+00:00</published>
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Ever since commit 45f035ab9b8f ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"),
it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG
turned off.  Remove all the remaining references to it.

Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Doug Thompson &lt;dougthompson@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hans.verkuil@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Ever since commit 45f035ab9b8f ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"),
it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG
turned off.  Remove all the remaining references to it.

Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Doug Thompson &lt;dougthompson@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hans.verkuil@cisco.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2013-05-07T14:59:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-07T14:59:19+00:00</published>
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Pull misc kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 "Non-critical kbuild changes:

   - make coccicheck improvements, but no new semantic patches this time

   - make rpm improvements

   - make tar-pkg change to include the architecture in the filename.

     This is a deliberate incompatibility, but nobody has complained so
     far and it is useful if you build for different architectures.  It
     also matches what the deb-pkg and rpm-pkg targets produce.

   - kbuild documentation fix"

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  rpm-pkg: Remove pointless set -e statements
  rpm-pkg: Always regenerate the specfile
  rpm-pkg: Do not write to the parent directory
  rpm-pkg: Do not package the whole source directory
  buildtar: Add ARCH to the archive name
  Coccinelle: Fix patch output when coccicheck is used with M= and C=
  Coccinelle: Add support to the SPFLAGS variable
  Coccinelle: Cleanup the setting of the FLAGS and OPTIONS variables
  Coccinelle: Restore coccicheck verbosity in ONLINE mode (C=1 or C=2)
  scripts/package/Makefile: compare objtree with srctree instead of test KBUILD_OUTPUT
  doc: change example to existing Makefile fragment
  scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for OFFSET and DEFINE
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Pull misc kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
 "Non-critical kbuild changes:

   - make coccicheck improvements, but no new semantic patches this time

   - make rpm improvements

   - make tar-pkg change to include the architecture in the filename.

     This is a deliberate incompatibility, but nobody has complained so
     far and it is useful if you build for different architectures.  It
     also matches what the deb-pkg and rpm-pkg targets produce.

   - kbuild documentation fix"

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  rpm-pkg: Remove pointless set -e statements
  rpm-pkg: Always regenerate the specfile
  rpm-pkg: Do not write to the parent directory
  rpm-pkg: Do not package the whole source directory
  buildtar: Add ARCH to the archive name
  Coccinelle: Fix patch output when coccicheck is used with M= and C=
  Coccinelle: Add support to the SPFLAGS variable
  Coccinelle: Cleanup the setting of the FLAGS and OPTIONS variables
  Coccinelle: Restore coccicheck verbosity in ONLINE mode (C=1 or C=2)
  scripts/package/Makefile: compare objtree with srctree instead of test KBUILD_OUTPUT
  doc: change example to existing Makefile fragment
  scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for OFFSET and DEFINE
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2013-05-07T14:58:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-07T14:58:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=685e56d2943bb8bf3b641d85b1b6c69d24f7965f'/>
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Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
 - use pkg-config to detect curses libraries
 - clean up the way curses headers are searched
 - Some randconfig fixes, of which one had to be reverted
 - KCONFIG_SEED for randconfig debugging
 - memuconfig memory leak plugged
 - menuconfig &gt; breadcrumbs &gt; navigation
 - xconfig compilation fix
 - Other minor fixes

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: fix lists definition for C++
  Revert "kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG"
  kconfig: implement KCONFIG_PROBABILITY for randconfig
  kconfig: allow specifying the seed for randconfig
  kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG
  kconfig: do not override symbols already set
  kconfig: fix randconfig tristate detection
  kconfig/lxdialog: rationalise the include paths where to find {.n}curses{,w}.h
  menuconfig: Add "breadcrumbs" navigation aid
  menuconfig: Fix memory leak introduced by jump keys feature
  merge_config.sh: Avoid creating unnessary source softlinks
  kconfig: optionally use pkg-config to detect ncurses libs
  menuconfig: optionally use pkg-config to detect ncurses libs
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Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
 - use pkg-config to detect curses libraries
 - clean up the way curses headers are searched
 - Some randconfig fixes, of which one had to be reverted
 - KCONFIG_SEED for randconfig debugging
 - memuconfig memory leak plugged
 - menuconfig &gt; breadcrumbs &gt; navigation
 - xconfig compilation fix
 - Other minor fixes

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: fix lists definition for C++
  Revert "kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG"
  kconfig: implement KCONFIG_PROBABILITY for randconfig
  kconfig: allow specifying the seed for randconfig
  kconfig: fix randomising choice entries in presence of KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG
  kconfig: do not override symbols already set
  kconfig: fix randconfig tristate detection
  kconfig/lxdialog: rationalise the include paths where to find {.n}curses{,w}.h
  menuconfig: Add "breadcrumbs" navigation aid
  menuconfig: Fix memory leak introduced by jump keys feature
  merge_config.sh: Avoid creating unnessary source softlinks
  kconfig: optionally use pkg-config to detect ncurses libs
  menuconfig: optionally use pkg-config to detect ncurses libs
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kconfig: implement KCONFIG_PROBABILITY for randconfig</title>
<updated>2013-04-24T22:16:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yann E. MORIN</name>
<email>yann.morin.1998@free.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-13T15:18:36+00:00</published>
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Currently the odds to set each symbol is (rounded):
    booleans:   y: 50%          n: 50%
    tristates:  y: 33%  m: 33%  n: 33%

Introduce a KCONFIG_PROBABILITY environment variable to tweak the
probabilities (in percentage), as such:
    KCONFIG_PROBABILITY     y:n split           y:m:n split
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
[1] unset or empty          50  : 50            33  : 33  : 34
[2] N                        N  : 100-N         N/2 : N/2 : 100-N
    N:M                     N+M : 100-(N+M)      N  :  M  : 100-(N+M)
    N:M:L                    N  : 100-N          M  :  L  : 100-(M+L)

[1] The current behaviour is kept as default, for backward compatibility
[2] The solution initially implemented by Peter for Buildroot, see:
    http://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=3435c1afb5

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard &lt;jacmet@uclibc.org&gt;
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: add to Documentation/]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" &lt;yann.morin.1998@free.fr&gt;
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Currently the odds to set each symbol is (rounded):
    booleans:   y: 50%          n: 50%
    tristates:  y: 33%  m: 33%  n: 33%

Introduce a KCONFIG_PROBABILITY environment variable to tweak the
probabilities (in percentage), as such:
    KCONFIG_PROBABILITY     y:n split           y:m:n split
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
[1] unset or empty          50  : 50            33  : 33  : 34
[2] N                        N  : 100-N         N/2 : N/2 : 100-N
    N:M                     N+M : 100-(N+M)      N  :  M  : 100-(N+M)
    N:M:L                    N  : 100-N          M  :  L  : 100-(M+L)

[1] The current behaviour is kept as default, for backward compatibility
[2] The solution initially implemented by Peter for Buildroot, see:
    http://git.buildroot.org/buildroot/commit/?id=3435c1afb5

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard &lt;jacmet@uclibc.org&gt;
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: add to Documentation/]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" &lt;yann.morin.1998@free.fr&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kconfig: allow specifying the seed for randconfig</title>
<updated>2013-04-24T22:16:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yann E. MORIN</name>
<email>yann.morin.1998@free.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-13T20:49:13+00:00</published>
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For reproducibility, it can be useful to be able to specify the
seed to use to seed the RNG.

Add a new KCONFIG_SEED environment variable which can be set to
the seed to use:
    $ make KCONFIG_SEED=42 randconfig
    $ sha1sum .config
    70a128c8dcc61303069e1be352cce64114dfcbca  .config
    $ make KCONFIG_SEED=42 randconfig
    $ sha1sum .config
    70a128c8dcc61303069e1be352cce64114dfcbca  .config

It's very usefull for eg. debugging the kconfig parser.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" &lt;yann.morin.1998@free.fr&gt;
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For reproducibility, it can be useful to be able to specify the
seed to use to seed the RNG.

Add a new KCONFIG_SEED environment variable which can be set to
the seed to use:
    $ make KCONFIG_SEED=42 randconfig
    $ sha1sum .config
    70a128c8dcc61303069e1be352cce64114dfcbca  .config
    $ make KCONFIG_SEED=42 randconfig
    $ sha1sum .config
    70a128c8dcc61303069e1be352cce64114dfcbca  .config

It's very usefull for eg. debugging the kconfig parser.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" &lt;yann.morin.1998@free.fr&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: change example to existing Makefile fragment</title>
<updated>2013-04-08T11:00:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Bolle</name>
<email>pebolle@tiscali.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-08T10:51:25+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle &lt;pebolle@tiscali.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: fix ld-option function</title>
<updated>2013-04-08T09:47:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Antony Pavlov</name>
<email>antonynpavlov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-03T14:42:33+00:00</published>
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The kbuild's ld-option function is broken because
the command
  $(CC) /dev/null -c -o "$$TMPO"
does not create object file!

I have used a relatively old mips gcc 3.4.6 cross-compiler
and a relatively new gcc 4.7.2 to check this fact
but the results are the same.

EXAMPLE:
  $ rm /tmp/1.o
  $ mips-linux-gcc /dev/null -c -o /tmp/1.o
  mips-linux-gcc: /dev/null: linker input file unused because linking not done
  $ ls -la /tmp/1.o
  ls: cannot access /tmp/1.o: No such file or directory

We can easily fix the problem by adding
the '-x c' compiler option.

EXAMPLE:
  $ rm /tmp/1.o
  $ mips-linux-gcc -x c /dev/null -c -o /tmp/1.o
  $ ls -la /tmp/1.o
  -rw-r--r-- 1 antony antony 778 Apr  2 20:40 /tmp/1.o

Also fix wrong ld-option example.

Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov &lt;antonynpavlov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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The kbuild's ld-option function is broken because
the command
  $(CC) /dev/null -c -o "$$TMPO"
does not create object file!

I have used a relatively old mips gcc 3.4.6 cross-compiler
and a relatively new gcc 4.7.2 to check this fact
but the results are the same.

EXAMPLE:
  $ rm /tmp/1.o
  $ mips-linux-gcc /dev/null -c -o /tmp/1.o
  mips-linux-gcc: /dev/null: linker input file unused because linking not done
  $ ls -la /tmp/1.o
  ls: cannot access /tmp/1.o: No such file or directory

We can easily fix the problem by adding
the '-x c' compiler option.

EXAMPLE:
  $ rm /tmp/1.o
  $ mips-linux-gcc -x c /dev/null -c -o /tmp/1.o
  $ ls -la /tmp/1.o
  -rw-r--r-- 1 antony antony 778 Apr  2 20:40 /tmp/1.o

Also fix wrong ld-option example.

Signed-off-by: Antony Pavlov &lt;antonynpavlov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2013-02-27T20:28:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2013-02-27T20:28:30+00:00</published>
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Pull kconfig changes from Michal Marek:
 "I forgot to send a pull request in time for the v3.8-rc1 merge window,
  so the list is a bit longer this time:

   - menuconfig enables extended colors in ncurses if the wide-character
     version is used.

   - CONFIG_ prefix can be specified in the environment to make life
     easier for people using kconfig multiple times in a single tree (no
     functional change in the kernel kconfig usage).

   - kconfig aborts on OOM.

   - inputboxes in menuconfig allow to move the cursor.

   - menuconfig has Save/Load buttons now.

   - xconfig build fix with new g++ and Qt3.

   - nconfig color scheme fix and help text update.

   - make oldconfig prints newlines when output is redirected.

   - some other minor fixes."

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: Fix missing '\n' for NEW symbols in yes "" | make oldconfig &gt;conf.new
  kconfig: nconf: rewrite labels of function keys line
  kconfig: nconf: rewrite help texts
  kconfig: fix a compiliation error when using make xconfig
  nconf: function keys line, change background color for better readability
  menuconfig: Get rid of the top-level entries for "Load an Alternate/Save an Alternate"
  menuconfig: Add Save/Load buttons
  kconfig:lxdialog: remove duplicate code
  menuconfig:inputbox: support navigate input position
  kconfig: document use of CONFIG_ environment variable
  scripts/kconfig: ensure we use proper CONFIG_ prefix
  merge_config.sh: Add option to specify output dir
  Revert "kconfig-language: add to hints"
  kconfig: Regenerate lexer
  kconfig: Fix malloc handling in conf tools
  kconfig: get CONFIG_ prefix from the environment
  kconfig: add a function to get the CONFIG_ prefix
  kconfig: remove CONFIG_ from string constants
  menuconfig: fix extended colors ncurses support
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Pull kconfig changes from Michal Marek:
 "I forgot to send a pull request in time for the v3.8-rc1 merge window,
  so the list is a bit longer this time:

   - menuconfig enables extended colors in ncurses if the wide-character
     version is used.

   - CONFIG_ prefix can be specified in the environment to make life
     easier for people using kconfig multiple times in a single tree (no
     functional change in the kernel kconfig usage).

   - kconfig aborts on OOM.

   - inputboxes in menuconfig allow to move the cursor.

   - menuconfig has Save/Load buttons now.

   - xconfig build fix with new g++ and Qt3.

   - nconfig color scheme fix and help text update.

   - make oldconfig prints newlines when output is redirected.

   - some other minor fixes."

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: Fix missing '\n' for NEW symbols in yes "" | make oldconfig &gt;conf.new
  kconfig: nconf: rewrite labels of function keys line
  kconfig: nconf: rewrite help texts
  kconfig: fix a compiliation error when using make xconfig
  nconf: function keys line, change background color for better readability
  menuconfig: Get rid of the top-level entries for "Load an Alternate/Save an Alternate"
  menuconfig: Add Save/Load buttons
  kconfig:lxdialog: remove duplicate code
  menuconfig:inputbox: support navigate input position
  kconfig: document use of CONFIG_ environment variable
  scripts/kconfig: ensure we use proper CONFIG_ prefix
  merge_config.sh: Add option to specify output dir
  Revert "kconfig-language: add to hints"
  kconfig: Regenerate lexer
  kconfig: Fix malloc handling in conf tools
  kconfig: get CONFIG_ prefix from the environment
  kconfig: add a function to get the CONFIG_ prefix
  kconfig: remove CONFIG_ from string constants
  menuconfig: fix extended colors ncurses support
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