Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6

[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / init / Kconfig

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index c8b172efaa65bf9264ecae76422159214f943b95..332aac6499667658e45b8be17181b81a75618bbb 100644 (file)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -959,24 +959,18 @@ config KALLSYMS_ALL
        bool "Include all symbols in kallsyms"
        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && KALLSYMS
        help
-          Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions, for nicer
-          OOPS messages.  Some debuggers can use kallsyms for other
-          symbols too: say Y here to include all symbols, if you need them 
-          and you don't care about adding 300k to the size of your kernel.
-
-          Say N.
-
-config KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS
-       bool "Do an extra kallsyms pass"
-       depends on KALLSYMS
-       help
-          If kallsyms is not working correctly, the build will fail with
-          inconsistent kallsyms data.  If that occurs, log a bug report and
-          turn on KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS which should result in a stable build.
-          Always say N here unless you find a bug in kallsyms, which must be
-          reported.  KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is only a temporary workaround while
-          you wait for kallsyms to be fixed.
-
+          Normally kallsyms only contains the symbols of functions for nicer
+          OOPS messages and backtraces (i.e., symbols from the text and inittext
+          sections). This is sufficient for most cases. And only in very rare
+          cases (e.g., when a debugger is used) all symbols are required (e.g.,
+          names of variables from the data sections, etc).
+
+          This option makes sure that all symbols are loaded into the kernel
+          image (i.e., symbols from all sections) in cost of increased kernel
+          size (depending on the kernel configuration, it may be 300KiB or
+          something like this).
+
+          Say N unless you really need all symbols.
 
 config HOTPLUG
        bool "Support for hot-pluggable devices" if EXPERT