Just a quick intro to what is pending in kbuild.git/lxdialog.git for 2.6.19.
And a short status too.
Highlights:
o unifdef is now included in the kernel source (used by
headers_* targets).
o lxdialog is now built-in (this did not remove all flickering
but thats much easier to fix now).
o Added color theme support to lxdialog (see help in menuconfig)
o modpost is run twice on vmlinux in normal (modules included)
builds - which may result in duplicated warnings.
It is run twice to make sure we run modpost in non-modules
build. modpost does the section mismatch chcks in all cases
o try the new "make V=2" thing. It tells why a target got
rebuild. It is good to catch those "why the heck did kbuild
rebuild that much after changing just a tine CONFIG_ option".
All of this is in latest -mm, and git trees at kernel.org.
Outstanding kbuild issues (I should fix a few of these for 2.6.18):
o make -j N is not as parallel as expected (latest report from Keith
Ownens but others has complained as well). I assume it is a kbuild
thing but has no clue how to fix it or debug it further.
o symlinked output directory is no good (Andi Kleen)
o dependency errors in scripts/ (Olaf Hering)
o fix -Wshadow in scripts/ (Jesper Juhl)
I add quite a few warnings in lxdialog patch serie :-(
o Add a few more color themses from Jan Engelhardt
o bugzilla has a few more issues that needs some love & care
Sam
Jan Engelhardt:
kconfig: linguistic fixes for Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
kbuild: linguistic fixes for Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt
kbuild: linguistic fixes for Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
Magnus Damm:
kbuild: ignore references from ".pci_fixup" to ".init.text"
Matthew Wilcox:
kconfig: support DOS line endings
Olaf Hering:
remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT from asm-offsets.h
Sam Ravnborg:
kbuild: consistently decide when to rebuild a target
kbuild: add unifdef
kbuild: replace use of strlcpy with a dedicated implmentation in unifdef
kbuild: use in-kernel unifdef
kbuild: create output directory for hostprogs with O=.. build
kbuild: remove debug left-over from Makefile.host
kbuild: modpost on vmlinux regardless of CONFIG_MODULES
kbuild: make V=2 tell why a target is rebuild
kbuild: make -rR is now default
kbuild: preperly align SYSMAP output
kbuild: add missing return statement in modpost.c:secref_whitelist()
Sam Ravnborg:
kconfig/lxdialog: refactor color support
kconfig/lxdialog: add support for color themes and add blackbg theme
kconfig/lxdialog: add a new theme bluetitle which is now default
kconfig/menuconfig: lxdialog is now built-in
kconfig/lxdialog: let <ESC><ESC> behave as expected
kconfig/lxdialog: support resize
kconfig/lxdialog: fix make mrproper
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