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| author | ulfalizer <ulfalizer@gmail.com> | 2015-03-13 02:02:49 +0100 |
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| committer | ulfalizer <ulfalizer@gmail.com> | 2015-03-13 02:02:49 +0100 |
| commit | 31655d5eba09aa9c87b393a263c042c2c60bdf70 (patch) | |
| tree | a0e3c6914727a06b20ff9b0017fa3f0058644ba4 /README.md | |
| parent | 1397713875bb4c2cb4353d6209eb7dfb3cdc2924 (diff) | |
Add note on v4.0-rc3 compatibility
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@@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ extract information, query and set symbol values, and read and write utilities in the kernel, usually invoked via make targets such as <i>menuconfig</i> and <i>defconfig</i>. +**Update: Mar 13 2015** + +Thanks to a patch from Philip Craig (https://github.com/philipc) that adds support +for the new `allnoconfig_y` option (which sets the user value of certain symbols +to `y` during `make allconfig` to improve coverage) and fixes an obscure issue +with comments inside `choice`s, the testsuite now passes with Linux v4.0-rc3. Very +little seems to have changed in the C implementation over the past years, which makes +me happy. :) + +Despite the warnings, modules *are* supported by the way (otherwise tests would break +horribly). The warnings are related to `option modules`, which lets you select which +symbol serves as the `MODULES` symbol. (In the kernel, it's always `MODULES`, and old +version didn't require setting `option modules` on it -- hence the warnings.) I should +add support for `option modules` in a backwards-compatible way. + ## Installation ## Installation instructions for the Linux kernel (in the kernel root): |