From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Cc: masahiroy@kernel.org, nico@fluxnic.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
maennich@google.com, kernel-team@android.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: allow symbol whitelisting with TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:45:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200130154530.GA7452@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200129150612.19200-1-qperret@google.com>
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 03:06:12PM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
> CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS currently removes all unused exported symbols
> from ksymtab. This works really well when using in-tree drivers, but
> cannot be used in its current form if some of them are out-of-tree.
NAK. The state policy is that we don't care for out of tree modules,
and this is useful for nothing but. In fact we should remove the
CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=n option soon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-30 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-29 15:06 [PATCH] kbuild: allow symbol whitelisting with TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS Quentin Perret
2020-01-29 17:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2020-01-29 17:37 ` Quentin Perret
2020-01-29 17:42 ` Nicolas Pitre
2020-01-30 15:45 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-01-30 17:01 ` Quentin Perret
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