Re: [RFC v3 07/13] tables.h: add linker table support

Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-08-12T03:51:33Z

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 05:55:08AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 05:05:39PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > So how can I disable those table-* things from even getting built? Avoid
> > > using table-y? But then everything declared table-y will be built
> > > unconditionally. I don't think I like that. :-\
> >
> > I suppose we could make this configurable... But frankly I would prefer to
> > instead just document that this use should be carefully considered instead,
> > and let this be up to the maintainers. We can make it easily configurable so
> > we can do that later becomes a required, I don't think its needed though
> > given maintainers should use it only when needed.
>
> You know how maintainers are just people, right? At least in most cases :-)
>
> I think it would be better if it were machine-enforceable somehow.
> Maybe allow it only for core code and have a single, per-arch file
> arch/x86/linker_tables or so where all those statements are collected
> and can be eyeballed by more people. Dunno, just trying to think of
> something here...

OK I've added CONFIG_BUILD_AVOID_BITROT.

Luis