Re: [PATCH] kprobes: remove redundant config check

[Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:43:02PM +0530, Abhishek Sagar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that there's a CONFIG_KPROBES check inside kernel/kprobes.c,
> which seems redundant. Can be removed?
> 
> Diff'd against v2.6.26-rc5.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
> ---
> remove redundant CONFIG_KPROBES check.
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> index 1e0250c..2b2cae2 100644
> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -1283,13 +1283,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_jprobe);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_jprobe);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_jprobes);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_jprobes);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(jprobe_return);
> -#endif
> -
> -#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_kretprobe);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_kretprobe);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_kretprobes);
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_kretprobes);
> -#endif

Abhishek,

This was intentional (to take care of some gcc 4.2 issues). See commit
cd5bfea278987ebfe60f3ff92a01696b17c4f978 (fix compilation with gcc 4.2)
from Peter Chubb for details.

Ananth