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+Introduction
+------------
+
+The configuration database is a collection of configuration options
+organized in a tree structure:
+
+	+- Code maturity level options
+	|  +- Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers
+	+- General setup
+	|  +- Networking support
+	|  +- System V IPC
+	|  +- BSD Process Accounting
+	|  +- Sysctl support
+	+- Loadable module support
+	|  +- Enable loadable module support
+	|     +- Set version information on all module symbols
+	|     +- Kernel module loader
+	+- ...
+
+Every entry has its own dependencies. These dependencies are used
+to determine the visibility of an entry. Any child entry is only
+visible if its parent entry is also visible.
+
+Menu entries
+------------
+
+Most entries define a config option; all other entries help to organize
+them. A single configuration option is defined like this:
+
+config MODVERSIONS
+	bool "Set version information on all module symbols"
+	depends on MODULES
+	help
+	  Usually, modules have to be recompiled whenever you switch to a new
+	  kernel.  ...
+
+Every line starts with a key word and can be followed by multiple
+arguments.  "config" starts a new config entry. The following lines
+define attributes for this config option. Attributes can be the type of
+the config option, input prompt, dependencies, help text and default
+values. A config option can be defined multiple times with the same
+name, but every definition can have only a single input prompt and the
+type must not conflict.
+
+Menu attributes
+---------------
+
+A menu entry can have a number of attributes. Not all of them are
+applicable everywhere (see syntax).
+
+- type definition: "bool"/"tristate"/"string"/"hex"/"int"
+  Every config option must have a type. There are only two basic types:
+  tristate and string; the other types are based on these two. The type
+  definition optionally accepts an input prompt, so these two examples
+  are equivalent:
+
+	bool "Networking support"
+  and
+	bool
+	prompt "Networking support"
+
+- input prompt: "prompt" <prompt> ["if" <expr>]
+  Every menu entry can have at most one prompt, which is used to display
+  to the user. Optionally dependencies only for this prompt can be added
+  with "if".
+
+- default value: "default" <expr> ["if" <expr>]
+  A config option can have any number of default values. If multiple
+  default values are visible, only the first defined one is active.
+  Default values are not limited to the menu entry where they are
+  defined. This means the default can be defined somewhere else or be
+  overridden by an earlier definition.
+  The default value is only assigned to the config symbol if no other
+  value was set by the user (via the input prompt above). If an input
+  prompt is visible the default value is presented to the user and can
+  be overridden by him.
+  Optionally, dependencies only for this default value can be added with
+  "if".
+
+ The default value deliberately defaults to 'n' in order to avoid bloating the
+ build. With few exceptions, new config options should not change this. The
+ intent is for "make oldconfig" to add as little as possible to the config from
+ release to release.
+
+ Note:
+	Things that merit "default y/m" include:
+
+	a) A new Kconfig option for something that used to always be built
+	   should be "default y".
+
+	b) A new gatekeeping Kconfig option that hides/shows other Kconfig
+	   options (but does not generate any code of its own), should be
+	   "default y" so people will see those other options.
+
+	c) Sub-driver behavior or similar options for a driver that is
+	   "default n". This allows you to provide sane defaults.
+
+	d) Hardware or infrastructure that everybody expects, such as CONFIG_NET
+	   or CONFIG_BLOCK. These are rare exceptions.
+
+- type definition + default value:
+	"def_bool"/"def_tristate" <expr> ["if" <expr>]
+  This is a shorthand notation for a type definition plus a value.
+  Optionally dependencies for this default value can be added with "if".
+
+- dependencies: "depends on" <expr>
+  This defines a dependency for this menu entry. If multiple
+  dependencies are defined, they are connected with '&&'. Dependencies
+  are applied to all other options within this menu entry (which also
+  accept an "if" expression), so these two examples are equivalent:
+
+	bool "foo" if BAR
+	default y if BAR
+  and
+	depends on BAR
+	bool "foo"
+	default y
+
+- reverse dependencies: "select" <symbol> ["if" <expr>]
+  While normal dependencies reduce the upper limit of a symbol (see
+  below), reverse dependencies can be used to force a lower limit of
+  another symbol. The value of the current menu symbol is used as the
+  minimal value <symbol> can be set to. If <symbol> is selected multiple
+  times, the limit is set to the largest selection.
+  Reverse dependencies can only be used with boolean or tristate
+  symbols.
+  Note:
+	select should be used with care. select will force
+	a symbol to a value without visiting the dependencies.
+	By abusing select you are able to select a symbol FOO even
+	if FOO depends on BAR that is not set.
+	In general use select only for non-visible symbols
+	(no prompts anywhere) and for symbols with no dependencies.
+	That will limit the usefulness but on the other hand avoid
+	the illegal configurations all over.
+
+- weak reverse dependencies: "imply" <symbol> ["if" <expr>]
+  This is similar to "select" as it enforces a lower limit on another
+  symbol except that the "implied" symbol's value may still be set to n
+  from a direct dependency or with a visible prompt.
+
+  Given the following example:
+
+  config FOO
+	tristate
+	imply BAZ
+
+  config BAZ
+	tristate
+	depends on BAR
+
+  The following values are possible:
+
+	FOO		BAR		BAZ's default	choice for BAZ
+	---		---		-------------	--------------
+	n		y		n		N/m/y
+	m		y		m		M/y/n
+	y		y		y		Y/n
+	y		n		*		N
+
+  This is useful e.g. with multiple drivers that want to indicate their
+  ability to hook into a secondary subsystem while allowing the user to
+  configure that subsystem out without also having to unset these drivers.
+
+- limiting menu display: "visible if" <expr>
+  This attribute is only applicable to menu blocks, if the condition is
+  false, the menu block is not displayed to the user (the symbols
+  contained there can still be selected by other symbols, though). It is
+  similar to a conditional "prompt" attribute for individual menu
+  entries. Default value of "visible" is true.
+
+- numerical ranges: "range" <symbol> <symbol> ["if" <expr>]
+  This allows to limit the range of possible input values for int
+  and hex symbols. The user can only input a value which is larger than
+  or equal to the first symbol and smaller than or equal to the second
+  symbol.
+
+- help text: "help" or "---help---"
+  This defines a help text. The end of the help text is determined by
+  the indentation level, this means it ends at the first line which has
+  a smaller indentation than the first line of the help text.
+  "---help---" and "help" do not differ in behaviour, "---help---" is
+  used to help visually separate configuration logic from help within
+  the file as an aid to developers.
+
+- misc options: "option" <symbol>[=<value>]
+  Various less common options can be defined via this option syntax,
+  which can modify the behaviour of the menu entry and its config
+  symbol. These options are currently possible:
+
+  - "defconfig_list"
+    This declares a list of default entries which can be used when
+    looking for the default configuration (which is used when the main
+    .config doesn't exists yet.)
+
+  - "modules"
+    This declares the symbol to be used as the MODULES symbol, which
+    enables the third modular state for all config symbols.
+    At most one symbol may have the "modules" option set.
+
+  - "allnoconfig_y"
+    This declares the symbol as one that should have the value y when
+    using "allnoconfig". Used for symbols that hide other symbols.
+
+Menu dependencies
+-----------------
+
+Dependencies define the visibility of a menu entry and can also reduce
+the input range of tristate symbols. The tristate logic used in the
+expressions uses one more state than normal boolean logic to express the
+module state. Dependency expressions have the following syntax:
+
+<expr> ::= <symbol>                             (1)
+           <symbol> '=' <symbol>                (2)
+           <symbol> '!=' <symbol>               (3)
+           <symbol1> '<' <symbol2>              (4)
+           <symbol1> '>' <symbol2>              (4)
+           <symbol1> '<=' <symbol2>             (4)
+           <symbol1> '>=' <symbol2>             (4)
+           '(' <expr> ')'                       (5)
+           '!' <expr>                           (6)
+           <expr> '&&' <expr>                   (7)
+           <expr> '||' <expr>                   (8)
+
+Expressions are listed in decreasing order of precedence. 
+
+(1) Convert the symbol into an expression. Boolean and tristate symbols
+    are simply converted into the respective expression values. All
+    other symbol types result in 'n'.
+(2) If the values of both symbols are equal, it returns 'y',
+    otherwise 'n'.
+(3) If the values of both symbols are equal, it returns 'n',
+    otherwise 'y'.
+(4) If value of <symbol1> is respectively lower, greater, lower-or-equal,
+    or greater-or-equal than value of <symbol2>, it returns 'y',
+    otherwise 'n'.
+(5) Returns the value of the expression. Used to override precedence.
+(6) Returns the result of (2-/expr/).
+(7) Returns the result of min(/expr/, /expr/).
+(8) Returns the result of max(/expr/, /expr/).
+
+An expression can have a value of 'n', 'm' or 'y' (or 0, 1, 2
+respectively for calculations). A menu entry becomes visible when its
+expression evaluates to 'm' or 'y'.
+
+There are two types of symbols: constant and non-constant symbols.
+Non-constant symbols are the most common ones and are defined with the
+'config' statement. Non-constant symbols consist entirely of alphanumeric
+characters or underscores.
+Constant symbols are only part of expressions. Constant symbols are
+always surrounded by single or double quotes. Within the quote, any
+other character is allowed and the quotes can be escaped using '\'.
+
+Menu structure
+--------------
+
+The position of a menu entry in the tree is determined in two ways. First
+it can be specified explicitly:
+
+menu "Network device support"
+	depends on NET
+
+config NETDEVICES
+	...
+
+endmenu
+
+All entries within the "menu" ... "endmenu" block become a submenu of
+"Network device support". All subentries inherit the dependencies from
+the menu entry, e.g. this means the dependency "NET" is added to the
+dependency list of the config option NETDEVICES.
+
+The other way to generate the menu structure is done by analyzing the
+dependencies. If a menu entry somehow depends on the previous entry, it
+can be made a submenu of it. First, the previous (parent) symbol must
+be part of the dependency list and then one of these two conditions
+must be true:
+- the child entry must become invisible, if the parent is set to 'n'
+- the child entry must only be visible, if the parent is visible
+
+config MODULES
+	bool "Enable loadable module support"
+
+config MODVERSIONS
+	bool "Set version information on all module symbols"
+	depends on MODULES
+
+comment "module support disabled"
+	depends on !MODULES
+
+MODVERSIONS directly depends on MODULES, this means it's only visible if
+MODULES is different from 'n'. The comment on the other hand is only
+visible when MODULES is set to 'n'.
+
+
+Kconfig syntax
+--------------
+
+The configuration file describes a series of menu entries, where every
+line starts with a keyword (except help texts). The following keywords
+end a menu entry:
+- config
+- menuconfig
+- choice/endchoice
+- comment
+- menu/endmenu
+- if/endif
+- source
+The first five also start the definition of a menu entry.
+
+config:
+
+	"config" <symbol>
+	<config options>
+
+This defines a config symbol <symbol> and accepts any of above
+attributes as options.
+
+menuconfig:
+	"menuconfig" <symbol>
+	<config options>
+
+This is similar to the simple config entry above, but it also gives a
+hint to front ends, that all suboptions should be displayed as a
+separate list of options. To make sure all the suboptions will really
+show up under the menuconfig entry and not outside of it, every item
+from the <config options> list must depend on the menuconfig symbol.
+In practice, this is achieved by using one of the next two constructs:
+
+(1):
+menuconfig M
+if M
+    config C1
+    config C2
+endif
+
+(2):
+menuconfig M
+config C1
+    depends on M
+config C2
+    depends on M
+
+In the following examples (3) and (4), C1 and C2 still have the M
+dependency, but will not appear under menuconfig M anymore, because
+of C0, which doesn't depend on M:
+
+(3):
+menuconfig M
+    config C0
+if M
+    config C1
+    config C2
+endif
+
+(4):
+menuconfig M
+config C0
+config C1
+    depends on M
+config C2
+    depends on M
+
+choices:
+
+	"choice" [symbol]
+	<choice options>
+	<choice block>
+	"endchoice"
+
+This defines a choice group and accepts any of the above attributes as
+options. A choice can only be of type bool or tristate.  If no type is
+specified for a choice, its type will be determined by the type of
+the first choice element in the group or remain unknown if none of the
+choice elements have a type specified, as well.
+
+While a boolean choice only allows a single config entry to be
+selected, a tristate choice also allows any number of config entries
+to be set to 'm'. This can be used if multiple drivers for a single
+hardware exists and only a single driver can be compiled/loaded into
+the kernel, but all drivers can be compiled as modules.
+
+A choice accepts another option "optional", which allows to set the
+choice to 'n' and no entry needs to be selected.
+If no [symbol] is associated with a choice, then you can not have multiple
+definitions of that choice. If a [symbol] is associated to the choice,
+then you may define the same choice (i.e. with the same entries) in another
+place.
+
+comment:
+
+	"comment" <prompt>
+	<comment options>
+
+This defines a comment which is displayed to the user during the
+configuration process and is also echoed to the output files. The only
+possible options are dependencies.
+
+menu:
+
+	"menu" <prompt>
+	<menu options>
+	<menu block>
+	"endmenu"
+
+This defines a menu block, see "Menu structure" above for more
+information. The only possible options are dependencies and "visible"
+attributes.
+
+if:
+
+	"if" <expr>
+	<if block>
+	"endif"
+
+This defines an if block. The dependency expression <expr> is appended
+to all enclosed menu entries.
+
+source:
+
+	"source" <prompt>
+
+This reads the specified configuration file. This file is always parsed.
+
+mainmenu:
+
+	"mainmenu" <prompt>
+
+This sets the config program's title bar if the config program chooses
+to use it. It should be placed at the top of the configuration, before any
+other statement.
+
+'#' Kconfig source file comment:
+
+An unquoted '#' character anywhere in a source file line indicates
+the beginning of a source file comment.  The remainder of that line
+is a comment.
+
+
+Kconfig hints
+-------------
+This is a collection of Kconfig tips, most of which aren't obvious at
+first glance and most of which have become idioms in several Kconfig
+files.
+
+Adding common features and make the usage configurable
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+It is a common idiom to implement a feature/functionality that are
+relevant for some architectures but not all.
+The recommended way to do so is to use a config variable named HAVE_*
+that is defined in a common Kconfig file and selected by the relevant
+architectures.
+An example is the generic IOMAP functionality.
+
+We would in lib/Kconfig see:
+
+# Generic IOMAP is used to ...
+config HAVE_GENERIC_IOMAP
+
+config GENERIC_IOMAP
+	depends on HAVE_GENERIC_IOMAP && FOO
+
+And in lib/Makefile we would see:
+obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP) += iomap.o
+
+For each architecture using the generic IOMAP functionality we would see:
+
+config X86
+	select ...
+	select HAVE_GENERIC_IOMAP
+	select ...
+
+Note: we use the existing config option and avoid creating a new
+config variable to select HAVE_GENERIC_IOMAP.
+
+Note: the use of the internal config variable HAVE_GENERIC_IOMAP, it is
+introduced to overcome the limitation of select which will force a
+config option to 'y' no matter the dependencies.
+The dependencies are moved to the symbol GENERIC_IOMAP and we avoid the
+situation where select forces a symbol equals to 'y'.
+
+Adding features that need compiler support
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+There are several features that need compiler support. The recommended way
+to describe the dependency on the compiler feature is to use "depends on"
+followed by a test macro.
+
+config STACKPROTECTOR
+	bool "Stack Protector buffer overflow detection"
+	depends on $(cc-option,-fstack-protector)
+	...
+
+If you need to expose a compiler capability to makefiles and/or C source files,
+CC_HAS_ is the recommended prefix for the config option.
+
+config CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE
+	def_bool $(cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
+
+Build as module only
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+To restrict a component build to module-only, qualify its config symbol
+with "depends on m".  E.g.:
+
+config FOO
+	depends on BAR && m
+
+limits FOO to module (=m) or disabled (=n).
+
+Kconfig recursive dependency limitations
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+If you've hit the Kconfig error: "recursive dependency detected" you've run
+into a recursive dependency issue with Kconfig, a recursive dependency can be
+summarized as a circular dependency. The kconfig tools need to ensure that
+Kconfig files comply with specified configuration requirements. In order to do
+that kconfig must determine the values that are possible for all Kconfig
+symbols, this is currently not possible if there is a circular relation
+between two or more Kconfig symbols. For more details refer to the "Simple
+Kconfig recursive issue" subsection below. Kconfig does not do recursive
+dependency resolution; this has a few implications for Kconfig file writers.
+We'll first explain why this issues exists and then provide an example
+technical limitation which this brings upon Kconfig developers. Eager
+developers wishing to try to address this limitation should read the next
+subsections.
+
+Simple Kconfig recursive issue
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Read: Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.recursion-issue-01
+
+Test with:
+
+make KBUILD_KCONFIG=Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.recursion-issue-01 allnoconfig
+
+Cumulative Kconfig recursive issue
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Read: Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.recursion-issue-02
+
+Test with:
+
+make KBUILD_KCONFIG=Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.recursion-issue-02 allnoconfig
+
+Practical solutions to kconfig recursive issue
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Developers who run into the recursive Kconfig issue have two options
+at their disposal. We document them below and also provide a list of
+historical issues resolved through these different solutions.
+
+  a) Remove any superfluous "select FOO" or "depends on FOO"
+  b) Match dependency semantics:
+	b1) Swap all "select FOO" to "depends on FOO" or,
+	b2) Swap all "depends on FOO" to "select FOO"
+
+The resolution to a) can be tested with the sample Kconfig file
+Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.recursion-issue-01 through the removal
+of the "select CORE" from CORE_BELL_A_ADVANCED as that is implicit already
+since CORE_BELL_A depends on CORE. At times it may not be possible to remove
+some dependency criteria, for such cases you can work with solution b).
+
+The two different resolutions for b) can be tested in the sample Kconfig file
+Documentation/kbuild/Kconfig.recursion-issue-02.
+
+Below is a list of examples of prior fixes for these types of recursive issues;
+all errors appear to involve one or more select's and one or more "depends on".
+
+commit          fix
+======          ===
+06b718c01208    select A -> depends on A
+c22eacfe82f9    depends on A -> depends on B
+6a91e854442c    select A -> depends on A
+118c565a8f2e    select A -> select B
+f004e5594705    select A -> depends on A
+c7861f37b4c6    depends on A -> (null)
+80c69915e5fb    select A -> (null)              (1)
+c2218e26c0d0    select A -> depends on A        (1)
+d6ae99d04e1c    select A -> depends on A
+95ca19cf8cbf    select A -> depends on A
+8f057d7bca54    depends on A -> (null)
+8f057d7bca54    depends on A -> select A
+a0701f04846e    select A -> depends on A
+0c8b92f7f259    depends on A -> (null)
+e4e9e0540928    select A -> depends on A        (2)
+7453ea886e87    depends on A > (null)           (1)
+7b1fff7e4fdf    select A -> depends on A
+86c747d2a4f0    select A -> depends on A
+d9f9ab51e55e    select A -> depends on A
+0c51a4d8abd6    depends on A -> select A        (3)
+e98062ed6dc4    select A -> depends on A        (3)
+91e5d284a7f1    select A -> (null)
+
+(1) Partial (or no) quote of error.
+(2) That seems to be the gist of that fix.
+(3) Same error.
+
+Future kconfig work
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Work on kconfig is welcomed on both areas of clarifying semantics and on
+evaluating the use of a full SAT solver for it. A full SAT solver can be
+desirable to enable more complex dependency mappings and / or queries,
+for instance on possible use case for a SAT solver could be that of handling
+the current known recursive dependency issues. It is not known if this would
+address such issues but such evaluation is desirable. If support for a full SAT
+solver proves too complex or that it cannot address recursive dependency issues
+Kconfig should have at least clear and well defined semantics which also
+addresses and documents limitations or requirements such as the ones dealing
+with recursive dependencies.
+
+Further work on both of these areas is welcomed on Kconfig. We elaborate
+on both of these in the next two subsections.
+
+Semantics of Kconfig
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The use of Kconfig is broad, Linux is now only one of Kconfig's users:
+one study has completed a broad analysis of Kconfig use in 12 projects [0].
+Despite its widespread use, and although this document does a reasonable job
+in documenting basic Kconfig syntax a more precise definition of Kconfig
+semantics is welcomed. One project deduced Kconfig semantics through
+the use of the xconfig configurator [1]. Work should be done to confirm if
+the deduced semantics matches our intended Kconfig design goals.
+
+Having well defined semantics can be useful for tools for practical
+evaluation of depenencies, for instance one such use known case was work to
+express in boolean abstraction of the inferred semantics of Kconfig to
+translate Kconfig logic into boolean formulas and run a SAT solver on this to
+find dead code / features (always inactive), 114 dead features were found in
+Linux using this methodology [1] (Section 8: Threats to validity).
+
+Confirming this could prove useful as Kconfig stands as one of the the leading
+industrial variability modeling languages [1] [2]. Its study would help
+evaluate practical uses of such languages, their use was only theoretical
+and real world requirements were not well understood. As it stands though
+only reverse engineering techniques have been used to deduce semantics from
+variability modeling languages such as Kconfig [3].
+
+[0] http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~shshe/kconfig_semantics.pdf
+[1] http://gsd.uwaterloo.ca/sites/default/files/vm-2013-berger.pdf
+[2] http://gsd.uwaterloo.ca/sites/default/files/ase241-berger_0.pdf
+[3] http://gsd.uwaterloo.ca/sites/default/files/icse2011.pdf
+
+Full SAT solver for Kconfig
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Although SAT solvers [0] haven't yet been used by Kconfig directly, as noted in
+the previous subsection, work has been done however to express in boolean
+abstraction the inferred semantics of Kconfig to translate Kconfig logic into
+boolean formulas and run a SAT solver on it [1]. Another known related project
+is CADOS [2] (former VAMOS [3]) and the tools, mainly undertaker [4], which has
+been introduced first with [5].  The basic concept of undertaker is to exract
+variability models from Kconfig, and put them together with a propositional
+formula extracted from CPP #ifdefs and build-rules into a SAT solver in order
+to find dead code, dead files, and dead symbols. If using a SAT solver is
+desirable on Kconfig one approach would be to evaluate repurposing such efforts
+somehow on Kconfig. There is enough interest from mentors of existing projects
+to not only help advise how to integrate this work upstream but also help
+maintain it long term. Interested developers should visit:
+
+http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/kconfig-sat
+
+[0] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~sabhar/chapters/SATSolvers-KR-Handbook.pdf
+[1] http://gsd.uwaterloo.ca/sites/default/files/vm-2013-berger.pdf
+[2] https://cados.cs.fau.de
+[3] https://vamos.cs.fau.de
+[4] https://undertaker.cs.fau.de
+[5] https://www4.cs.fau.de/Publications/2011/tartler_11_eurosys.pdf