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Greg Kroah-Hartman
a9d1b24d91 [PATCH] I2C: add i2c module alias for i2c drivers to use
This is the start of adding hotplug-like support for i2c devices.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1e65174a33 Add some basic .gitignore files
This still leaves driver and architecture-specific subdirectories alone,
but gets rid of the bulk of the "generic" generated files that we should
ignore.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-18 08:26:15 -07:00
Kars de Jong
4fb7edce52 [PATCH] pcmcia: fix cross-platform issues with pcmcia module aliases
- Added a missing TO_NATIVE call to scripts/mod/file2alias.c:do_pcmcia_entry()
- Add an alignment attribute to struct pcmcia_device_no to solve an alignment
  issue seen when cross-compiling on x86 for m68k.

Signed-off-by: Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2005-09-26 13:13:58 +02:00
Al Viro
7caaeabb17 [SPARC]: Fix dot-symbol exporting for good.
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

Instead of playing all of these hand-coded assembler aliasing games,
just translate symbol names in the name space ".sym" to "_Sym" at
module load time.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-11 20:14:07 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
0a504f259c kbuild: add objectify
Use foo := $(call objectify, $(foo)) to prefix $(foo) with $(obj)/ unless
$(foo) is an absolute path.
For now no in-tree users - soon to come.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-10 21:02:11 +02:00
Roland McGrath
caba0233bc [PATCH] kbuild: ignore all debugging info sections in scripts/reference_discarded.pl
GCC 4 emits more DWARF debugging information than before and there is now a
.debug_loc section as well.  This causes "make buildcheck" to fail.  Rather
than just add that one to the special case list, I used a regexp to ignore
any .debug_ANYTHING sections in case more show up in the future.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-10 15:09:02 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
580b2e3c01 [PATCH] Adapt scripts/ver_linux to new util-linux version strings
Tested with 2.12i and 2.13-pre2.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:33 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
6f00df24ee [PATCH] Strip local symbols from kallsyms
Local symbols generated by gcc start with a `$'; no point in including them
in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:20 -07:00
Paulo Marques
b3dbb4ecd4 [PATCH] kallsyms: change compression algorithm
This patch changes the way the compression algorithm works.  The base
algorithm is similiar to the previous but we force the compressed token
size to 2.

Having a fixed size compressed token allows for a lot of optimizations, and
that in turn allows this code to run over *all* the symbols faster than it
did before over just a subset.

Having it work over all the symbols will make it behave better when symbols
change positions between passes, and the "inconsistent kallsyms" messages
should become less frequent.

In my tests the compression ratio was degraded by about 0.5%, but the
results will depend greatly on the number of symbols to compress.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ef88b7dba2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2005-09-06 00:35:51 -07:00
Egry Gabor
720d6c29e1 [PATCH] kconfig: linux.pot for all arch
The 'make update-po-config' creates the .pot file for the default arch.  This
patch enhances it with all arch.

Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <gaboregry@t-online.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:49 -07:00
Egry Gabor
964267e627 [PATCH] kconfig: kxgettext: EOL fix
The end of line character doesn't exist on end of help in all case, check it
first.

Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <gaboregry@t-online.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:49 -07:00
Egry Gabor
c196eff306 [PATCH] kconfig: kxgettext: message fix
The gettext doesn't handle the {CONFIG}:00000 markers as sources.  I added a
simple comment prefix for them.

Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <gaboregry@t-online.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:49 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
fb120da678 [PATCH] Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devices
Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devices.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-08-30 13:31:56 +10:00
Ben Colline
8d5290149e [SPARC]: Deal with glibc changing macro names in modpost.c
GLIBC 2.3.4 and later changed the STT_REGISTER macro to
STT_SPARC_REGISTER, so we need to cope with that somehow.

Original patch from fabbione, reposted by Ben Collins.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-19 13:44:57 -07:00
Ryan Anderson
aaebf43320 [PATCH] kbuild: automatically append a short string to the version based upon the git commit
If CONFIG_AUTO_LOCALVERSION is set, the user is using a git-based tree, and the
current HEAD is not referred to by any tags in .git/refs/tags/, append -g and
the first 8 characters of the commit to the version string.  This makes it
easier to use git-bisect, and/or to do a daily build, without trampling on your
older, working builds, or accidentally setting up conflicting sets of modules.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-08-10 21:11:23 +02:00
Joachim Nilsson
bafd2df5d0 [PATCH] fix gconfig crash
I ran glade-2 on the glade file, fixed two missing stock icons and
cleaned up the C code that inserts the single/split/full modes. The
rest of the patch is minor cleanups only. I refrained from using all
the included xpm icons in images.c (like qconf.cc does) in favour of
using the stock Gtk+ icons instead. Oh, yes there was a "back" bug
in split mode that I also removed, oh well...

It has been tested with success by several people, including
Jesper Juhl, Randy Dunlap and myself.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-28 15:43:58 -07:00
blaisorblade@yahoo.it
fb7f6ff614 [PATCH] kconfig: trivial cleanup
Replace all menu_add_prop mimicking menu_add_prompt with the latter func. I've
had to add a return value to menu_add_prompt for one usage.

I've rebuilt scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c_shipped by hand to reflect changes
in the source (I've not the same Bison version so regenerating it wouldn't
have been not a good idea), and compared it with what Roman itself did some
time ago, and it's the same.

So I guess this can be finally merged.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-28 23:19:01 +02:00
J.A. Magallon
61d9cdf2a9 [PATCH] kbuild: signed char fixes for scripts
This time I did not break anything... and they shut up gcc4 ;)

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-27 22:27:08 +02:00
Keenan Pepper
84c2a2eb34 [PATCH] kbuild: signed/unsigned char fix for make menuconfig
Quiet some silly warnings.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-27 22:17:30 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
db8c1a7b2c kbuild: fix building external modules
kbuild failed to locate Makefile for external modules.
This brought to my attention how the variables for directories
have different values in different usage scenarios.

Different kbuild usage scenarios:
make       - plain make in same directory where kernel source lives
make O=    - kbuild is told to store output files in another directory
make M=    - building an external module
make O= M= - building an external module with kernel output seperate from src

Value assigned to the different variables:

           |$(src)          |$(obj) |$(srctree)        |$(objtree)
make       |reldir to k src |as src |abs path to k src |abs path to k src
make O=    |reldir to k src |as src |abs path to k src |abs path to output dir
make M=    |abs path to src |as src |abs path to k src |abs path to k src
make O= M= |abs path to src |as src |abs path to k src |abs path to k output

path to kbuild file:

make       | $(srctree)/$(src), $(src)
make O=    | $(srctree)/$(src)
make M=    | $(src)
make O= M= | $(src)

From the table above it can be seen that the only good way to find the
home directory of the kbuild file is to locate the one of the two variants
that is an absolute path. If $(src) is an absolute path (starts with /)
then use it, otherwise prefix $(src) with $(srctree).

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-27 22:11:01 +02:00
Sam Ravnborg
2315c6e422 kbuild: define clean before including kbuild file
Defining clean before including the kbuild file give us knowledge when
the kbuild file is included for cleaning. This is rarey usefull - but in
a corner case in klibc this proved necessary.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
2005-07-25 22:41:12 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
2a69147034 kbuild: fix make O=...
kbuild failed to locate Kbuild.include.
Teach kbuild how to find Kbuild files when using make O=...

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
2005-07-25 20:26:04 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
8ec4b4ff1c kbuild: introduce Kbuild.include
Kbuild.include is a placeholder for definitions originally present in
both the top-level Makefile and scripts/Makefile.build.
There were a slight difference in the filechk definition, so the most videly
used version was kept and usr/Makefile was adopted for this syntax.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
2005-07-25 20:10:36 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
7c6b155fb4 kbuild: drop descend - converting existing users
There was only two users left of descend. Fix them so they
use $(clean)= and $(build)=.
Drop definition of descend.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
2005-07-25 12:51:08 +00:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt
d178817803 [PATCH] kbuild: make help binrpm-pkg fix
This fixes kbuild make help binrpm-pkg missing `''.

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-21 21:45:47 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
a91f98a284 kbuild: Fix bug in make deb-pkg when using seperate source and output directories
From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>

When running "make O=something deb-pkg", I get a failure that claims I
haven't configured my kernel (I have).  Running it a second time tells
me to run "make mrproper"  (include/linux/version.h got built on the
first run)

Original patch from:
From: Ajay Patel <patela@gmail.com>

With modifications from:
Signed-off-By: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14 20:26:09 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
dc5962fdf1 uml: Restore proper descriptions in make deb-pkg target
From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>

This pulls the description from the Debian user-mode-linux package, and
puts $version back in the appropriate places for both descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14 20:24:56 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
687c3dac59 uml: Make deb-pkg build target build a Debian-style user-mode-linux package
From: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>

Make the deb-pkg build target understand the "um" arch and set up the
package and directory structure to match a mainline-Debian style
user-mode-linux package.

This is primarily so that it stops matching, exactly, the naming
convention used by normal, non-UML kernels generated by this command.

Installing "linux-2.6.11" and "linux-2.6.11", where one is a UML kernel
doesn't do the right thing.  This fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14 20:24:00 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
c5f75eca12 kbuild: fix buildcheck
From: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>

I should not have added init.text test here;
it's more than useless, it actually degrades the output.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14 20:20:13 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
bd5bdd875b kbuild: "PREEMPT" in UTS_VERSION
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>

Add PREEMPT to UTS_VERSION where enabled as is done for SMP to make
preempt kernels easily identifiable.
Added SMP PREEMPT as comment in compile.h to force it to be
updated when they change (sam).

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14 20:18:07 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
53e88e03e6 buildcheck: reduce DEBUG_INFO noise from reference* scripts
From: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>

Reduce noise in 'make buildcheck' that is caused by CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14 20:14:42 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
cfca82f217 kbuild: Fix build as root then user
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
I inadvertently built a tree as root and then rebuilt it as a user.  I
got a lot of prompts ...

mv: overwrite `drivers/char/drm/drm_auth.o', overriding mode 0644?

Using mv -f fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-14 20:12:40 +00:00
Randy Dunlap
2283a117f6 [PATCH] scripts/kernel-doc: don't use uninitialized SRCTREE
Current kernel-doc (perl) script generates this warning:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at scripts/kernel-doc line 1668.

So explicitly check for SRCTREE in the ENV before using it,
and then if it is set, append a '/' to the end of it, otherwise
the SRCTREE + filename can (will) be missing the intermediate '/'.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13 23:18:36 +00:00
Jeff Mahoney
66da665ca3 [PATCH] Lindent: ignore .indent.pro
When I recently submitted a Lindent patch, it turned out that my .indent.pro
 options were also applied to the tree. This patch directs indent(1) to ignore
 the .indent.pro directives and only use options specified on the command
 line.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13 23:09:16 +00:00
Yum Rayan
be3cef986f [PATCH] kbuild: restrain output of "make help" to 80 columns
This patch fixes the output of "make help" to fit in a 80 column
screen. Please push upstream as part of your other patches.

Signed-off-by: Yum Rayan <yum.rayan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13 22:54:57 +00:00
Matthias Urlichs
e0af0d85f5 [PATCH] kbuild: obey HOSTLOADLIBES_programname for single-file compilation
Single-file HOSTCC calls added the libraries from $(HOSTLOADLIBES),
but not from $(HOSTLOADLIBES_programname). Multi-file HOSTCC calls do
both.

This patch fixes that inconsistency.

Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13 22:11:14 +00:00
Greg Edwards
d2cb1a95c5 [PATCH] kbuild: add ia64 support to rpm Makefile target
On ia64, only the EFI (fat) partition is available to boot from.  The rpm
needs to install the kernel under /boot/efi to be useable on ia64.

Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13 21:08:33 +00:00
Jeff Mahoney
c0ac515e29 [PATCH] Lindent: ignore .indent.pro
When I recently submitted a Lindent patch, it turned out that my .indent.pro
 options were also applied to the tree. This patch directs indent(1) to ignore
 the .indent.pro directives and only use options specified on the command
 line.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13 10:28:43 -07:00
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
b95d4fec89 [PATCH] kbuild: modpost needs to cope with new glibc elf header on sparc
Recently a change in the glibc elf.h header has been introduced causing
modpost to spawn tons of warnings (like the one below) building the kernel
on sparc:

[SNIP]
*** Warning: "current_thread_info_reg" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined!
[SNIP]

Ben Collins discovered that the STT_REGISTERED definition in glibc did change
and that this change needs to be propagated to modpost.

glibc change:
-#define STT_REGISTER   13              /* Global register reserved to app. */
+#define STT_SPARC_REGISTER     13      /* Global register reserved to app. */

I did and tested this simple patch to maintain compatibility with newer (>= 2.3.4)
and older (<= 2.3.2) glibc.

Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13 17:05:32 +00:00
Jan-Benedict Glaw
6d983feab8 [PATCH] kbuild: create tarballs
It adds tarball packaging, which I prefer for distribution.
Also one of the two blanks after @echo is removed. One seems to be enough :)

Signed-off-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-12 22:40:17 +00:00
Jeff Mahoney
5e6557722e [PATCH] openfirmware: generate device table for userspace
This converts the usage of struct of_match to struct of_device_id,
similar to pci_device_id.  This allows a device table to be generated,
which can be parsed by depmod(8) to generate a map file for module
loading.

In order for hotplug to work with macio devices, patches to
module-init-tools and hotplug must be applied.  Those patches are
available at:

 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jeffm/linux/macio-hotplug/

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-06 12:55:20 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
90829cfe1d [PATCH] pcmcia: file2alias
Create PCMCIA entries in modules.alias

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 18:03:07 -07:00
J.A. Magallon
48b9d03c5f [PATCH] Kill signed chars
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: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:25:07 -07:00
Jean-Christophe Dubois
442ff70223 [PATCH] mconf.c needs locale.h
This is failing on my cross-compilation environment (From a solaris system)
using gcc-3.4.1 (as the compiler can't find a prototype for the setlocale()
function).

Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe Dubois <jdubois@mc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:39 -07:00
Thierry Vignaud
17abee3d50 [PATCH] gconfig: only show scrollbars if needed
gconfig: only show scrollbars if needed (which is more user friendly):

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:31 -07:00
Jan Beulich
8476994af7 [PATCH] apply quotation handling to Makefile.build
Adding quotation handling to rule_cc_o_c in scripts/Makefile.build as used
elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:28 -07:00
Randy.Dunlap
1922163c8d [PATCH] patch-kernel: support non-incremental 2.6.x.y 'stable' patches
Add better support for (non-incremental) 2.6.x.y patches; If an ending
version number if not specified, the script automatically increments the
SUBLEVEL (x in 2.6.x.y) until no more patch files are found; however,
EXTRAVERSION (y in 2.6.x.y) is never automatically incremented but must be
specified fully.

patch-kernel does not normally support reverse patching, but does so when
applying EXTRAVERSION (x.y) patches, so that moving from 2.6.11.y to
2.6.11.z is easy and handled by the script (reverse 2.6.11.y and apply
2.6.11.z).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:40 -07:00
David Woodhouse
075d6eb16d [PATCH] ppc32: platform-specific functions missing from kallsyms.
The PPC32 kernel puts platform-specific functions into separate sections so
that unneeded parts of it can be freed when we've booted and actually
worked out what we're running on today.

This makes kallsyms ignore those functions, because they're not between
_[se]text or _[se]inittext.  Rather than teaching kallsyms about the
various pmac/chrp/etc sections, this patch adds '_[se]extratext' markers
for kallsyms.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:31 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
3b9fa0931d [PATCH] Kconfig i18n support
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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 15:24:00 -07:00