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-rw-r--r--Documentation/dontdiff1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt8
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dontdiff b/Documentation/dontdiff
index e151b2a36267..3ad6acead949 100644
--- a/Documentation/dontdiff
+++ b/Documentation/dontdiff
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ gconf
gen-devlist
gen_crc32table
gen_init_cpio
+generated
genheaders
genksyms
*_gray256.c
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
index bb3bf38f03da..6f8c1cabbc5d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+Output files
+
+modules.order
+--------------------------------------------------
+This file records the order in which modules appear in Makefiles. This
+is used by modprobe to deterministically resolve aliases that match
+multiple modules.
+
+modules.builtin
+--------------------------------------------------
+This file lists all modules that are built into the kernel. This is used
+by modprobe to not fail when trying to load something builtin.
+
+
Environment variables
KCPPFLAGS
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
index 849b5e56d06f..49efae703979 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -103,10 +103,16 @@ KCONFIG_AUTOCONFIG
This environment variable can be set to specify the path & name of the
"auto.conf" file. Its default value is "include/config/auto.conf".
+KCONFIG_TRISTATE
+--------------------------------------------------
+This environment variable can be set to specify the path & name of the
+"tristate.conf" file. Its default value is "include/config/tristate.conf".
+
KCONFIG_AUTOHEADER
--------------------------------------------------
This environment variable can be set to specify the path & name of the
-"autoconf.h" (header) file. Its default value is "include/linux/autoconf.h".
+"autoconf.h" (header) file.
+Its default value is "include/generated/autoconf.h".
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