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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - improve fixdep to coalesce consecutive slashes in dep-files - fix some issues of the maintainer string generation in deb-pkg script - remove unused CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX and clean-up several tools and linker scripts - clean-up modpost - allow to enable the dead code/data elimination for PowerPC in EXPERT mode - improve two coccinelle scripts for better performance - pass endianness and machine size flags to sparse for all architecture - misc fixes * tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits) kbuild: add machine size to CHECKFLAGS kbuild: add endianness flag to CHEKCFLAGS kbuild: $(CHECK) doesnt need NOSTDINC_FLAGS twice scripts: Fixed printf format mismatch scripts/tags.sh: use `find` for $ALLSOURCE_ARCHS generation coccinelle: deref_null: improve performance coccinelle: mini_lock: improve performance powerpc: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selected kbuild: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selectable if enabled kbuild: LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION no -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections for module build kbuild: Fix asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h for LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION modpost: constify *modname function argument where possible modpost: remove redundant is_vmlinux() test modpost: use strstarts() helper more widely modpost: pass struct elf_info pointer to get_modinfo() checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check vmlinux.lds.h: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL() kbuild: remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX export.h: remove code for prefixing symbols with underscore depmod.sh: remove symbol prefix support ...
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
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.