Re: modules: Fix build error in the !CONFIG_KALLSYMS case

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:14:56 pm Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > James Bottomley (1):
> >       module: workaround duplicate section names
> 
> -tip testing found that this patch breaks the build on x86 if 
> CONFIG_KALLSYMS is disabled:
> 
>  kernel/module.c: In function ‘load_module’:
>  kernel/module.c:2367: error: ‘struct module’ has no member named ‘sect_attrs’
>  distcc[8269] ERROR: compile kernel/module.c on ph/32 failed
>  make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
>  make: *** [kernel] Error 2
>  make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> 
> Commit 1b364bf misses the fact that section attributes are only 
> built and dealt with if kallsyms is enabled. The patch below fixes 
> this.
> 
> ( note, technically speaking this should depend on CONFIG_SYSFS as
>   well but this patch is correct too and keeps the #ifdef less
>   intrusive - in the KALLSYMS && !SYSFS case the code is a NOP. )
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Thanks,
Rusty.