Re: [RFC PATCH] drop support for KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS

[Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> We have not seen any reports on inconsistent kallsysms data recently
> as in the last one or two years. At least I do not recall these
> and google had no hits in my searching.
> 
> So I suggest removing this as to simplify the final linking.
> When doing "make allyesconfig" build this extra linking
> takes considerably time (and I usually forgoet to turn it off).

I don't remember any recent (read: in the last few years) problems 
either, so I guess this is ok.

> In addition this patch removes the debug target: debug_kallsyms

This might be useful if changes in some binutils version creates new 
problems for kallsyms, but it doesn't seem like a lot of work to just 
send a reporter a patch to add this back if needed. Since there haven't 
been any reports in a few years, I have no problems with this.

Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>

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