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Masahiro Yamada 8e9b466799 kbuild: use $(abspath ...) instead of $(shell cd ... && /bin/pwd)
Kbuild conventionally uses $(shell cd ... && /bin/pwd) idiom to get
the absolute path of the directory because GNU Make 3.80, the minimal
supported version at that time, did not support $(abspath ...) or
$(realpath ...).

Commit 37d69ee308 ("docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.81")
dropped the GNU Make 3.80 support, so we are now allowed to use those
make-builtin helpers.

This conversion will provide better portability without relying on
the pwd command or its location /bin/pwd.

I am intentionally using $(realpath ...) instead $(abspath ...) in
some places.  The difference between the two is $(realpath ...)
returns an empty string if the given path does not exist.  It is
convenient in places where we need to error-out if the makefile fails
to create an output directory.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
2017-09-01 08:50:32 +09:00
Documentation media fixes for v4.13-rc2 2017-08-05 14:09:26 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2017-08-06 11:52:01 -07:00
block blk-mq: map queues to all present CPUs 2017-07-24 10:01:31 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - Fix digest_null crash 2017-07-18 17:01:11 +08:00
drivers platform-drivers-x86 for v4.13-4 2017-08-06 16:11:34 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs A large number of ext4 bug fixes and cleanups for v4.13 2017-08-06 12:31:17 -07:00
include A large number of ext4 bug fixes and cleanups for v4.13 2017-08-06 12:31:17 -07:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc: add missing container_of()s for randstruct 2017-08-02 17:16:12 -07:00
kernel Fix compat_sys_sigpending breakage 2017-08-06 11:48:27 -07:00
lib Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-07-31 22:36:42 -07:00
mm mm: take memory hotplug lock within numa_zonelist_order_handler() 2017-08-02 17:16:11 -07:00
net A bunch of fixes and follow-ups for -rc1 Luminous patches: issues with 2017-08-04 10:15:11 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup 2017-07-31 22:02:47 -07:00
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security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.13 2017-08-02 17:11:45 +02:00
tools kbuild: use $(abspath ...) instead of $(shell cd ... && /bin/pwd) 2017-09-01 08:50:32 +09:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.13-rc4 2017-08-03 17:59:58 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
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Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS GPIO fixes in the first take after v4.13-rc1: 2017-08-05 06:55:13 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: use $(abspath ...) instead of $(shell cd ... && /bin/pwd) 2017-09-01 08:50:32 +09:00
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.