diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst | 27 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst index d0111dd26410..a1601ec3317b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.rst @@ -159,11 +159,11 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax). Given the following example:: config FOO - tristate + tristate "foo" imply BAZ config BAZ - tristate + tristate "baz" depends on BAR The following values are possible: @@ -173,7 +173,10 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax). === === ============= ============== n y n N/m/y m y m M/y/n - y y y Y/n + y y y Y/m/n + n m n N/m + m m m M/n + y m n M/n y n * N === === ============= ============== @@ -181,6 +184,24 @@ applicable everywhere (see syntax). ability to hook into a secondary subsystem while allowing the user to configure that subsystem out without also having to unset these drivers. + Note: If the combination of FOO=y and BAR=m causes a link error, + you can guard the function call with IS_REACHABLE():: + + foo_init() + { + if (IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_BAZ)) + baz_register(&foo); + ... + } + + Note: If the feature provided by BAZ is highly desirable for FOO, + FOO should imply not only BAZ, but also its dependency BAR:: + + config FOO + tristate "foo" + imply BAR + imply BAZ + - limiting menu display: "visible if" <expr> This attribute is only applicable to menu blocks, if the condition is |