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Eugeniu Rosca d9119b5925 kconfig: Print reverse dependencies in groups 
Surprisingly or not, disabling a CONFIG option (which is assumed to
be unneeded) may be not so trivial. Especially it is not trivial, when
this CONFIG option is selected by a dozen of other configs. Before the
moment commit 1ccb271433 ("kconfig: make "Selected by:" and
"Implied by:" readable") popped up in v4.16-rc1, it was an absolute pain
to break down the "Selected by" reverse dependency expression in order
to identify all those configs which select (IOW *do not allow
disabling*) a certain feature (assumed to be not needed).

This patch tries to make one step further by putting at users'
fingertips the revdep top level OR sub-expressions grouped/clustered by
the tristate value they evaluate to. This should allow the users to
directly concentrate on and tackle the _active_ reverse dependencies.

To give some numbers and quantify the complexity of certain reverse
dependencies, assuming commit 617aebe6a9 ("Merge tag
'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux"), ARCH=arm64
and vanilla arm64 defconfig, here is the top 10 CONFIG options with
the highest amount of top level "||" sub-expressions/tokens that make
up the final "Selected by" reverse dependency expression.

| Config            | All revdep | Active revdep |
|-------------------|------------|---------------|
| REGMAP_I2C        | 212        | 9             |
| CRC32             | 167        | 25            |
| FW_LOADER         | 128        | 5             |
| MFD_CORE          | 124        | 9             |
| FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT  | 114        | 2             |
| FB_CFB_COPYAREA   | 111        | 2             |
| FB_CFB_FILLRECT   | 110        | 2             |
| SND_PCM           | 103        | 2             |
| CRYPTO_HASH       | 87         | 19            |
| WATCHDOG_CORE     | 86         | 6             |

The story behind the above is that users need to visually
review/evaluate 212 expressions which *potentially* select REGMAP_I2C
in order to identify the expressions which *actually* select REGMAP_I2C,
for a particular ARCH and for a particular defconfig used.

To make this experience smoother, change the way reverse dependencies
are displayed to the user from [1] to [2].

[1] Old representation of DMA_ENGINE_RAID:
  Selected by:
  - AMCC_PPC440SPE_ADMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (440SPe || 440SP)
  - BCM_SBA_RAID [=m] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (ARM64 [=y] || ...
  - FSL_RAID [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && FSL_SOC && ...
  - INTEL_IOATDMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && PCI [=y] && X86_64
  - MV_XOR [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (PLAT_ORION || ARCH_MVEBU [=y] ...
  - MV_XOR_V2 [=y] && DMADEVICES [=y] && ARM64 [=y]
  - XGENE_DMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (ARCH_XGENE [=y] || ...
  - DMATEST [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && DMA_ENGINE [=y]

[2] New representation of DMA_ENGINE_RAID:
  Selected by [y]:
  - MV_XOR_V2 [=y] && DMADEVICES [=y] && ARM64 [=y]
  Selected by [m]:
  - BCM_SBA_RAID [=m] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (ARM64 [=y] || ...
  Selected by [n]:
  - AMCC_PPC440SPE_ADMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (440SPe || ...
  - FSL_RAID [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && FSL_SOC && ...
  - INTEL_IOATDMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && PCI [=y] && X86_64
  - MV_XOR [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (PLAT_ORION || ARCH_MVEBU [=y] ...
  - XGENE_DMA [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && (ARCH_XGENE [=y] || ...
  - DMATEST [=n] && DMADEVICES [=y] && DMA_ENGINE [=y]

Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugeniu Rosca <erosca@de.adit-jv.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2018-03-26 02:03:58 +09:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-11 14:59:23 -07:00
block for-linus-20180302 2018-03-02 09:35:36 -08:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto X.509: fix NULL dereference when restricting key with unsupported_sig 2018-02-22 14:38:34 +00:00
Documentation dmaengine fixes for v4.16-rc5 2018-03-11 13:07:14 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-11 14:55:15 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs Merge branch 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs 2018-03-09 09:46:14 -08:00
include pci-v4.16-fixes-3 2018-03-09 13:31:08 -08:00
init jump_label: Explicitly disable jump labels in __init code 2018-02-21 16:54:05 +01:00
ipc vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-11 14:49:49 -07:00
lib lib/test_kmod.c: fix limit check on number of test devices created 2018-03-09 16:40:02 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
mm mm/page_alloc: fix memmap_init_zone pageblock alignment 2018-03-09 16:40:01 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-03-05 11:29:24 -08:00
samples - do not build samples when cross compiling (Michal Hocko) 2018-02-27 10:39:29 -08:00
scripts kconfig: Print reverse dependencies in groups 2018-03-26 02:03:58 +09:00
security integrity/security: fix digsig.c build error with header file 2018-02-22 20:09:08 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda: add dock and led support for HP ProBook 640 G2 2018-03-08 17:37:10 +01:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-03-11 14:59:23 -07:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: mmu: Fix overlap between public and private memslots 2018-02-24 01:43:36 +01:00
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.gitignore .gitignore: ignore ASN.1 auto generated files 2018-02-14 21:05:38 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Mark Yao's email address 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Kbuild fixes for v4.16 2018-03-03 10:37:01 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.16-rc5 2018-03-11 17:25:09 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.