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Subject[PATCH 4/4] modules: do not depend on kconfig to set 'modules' option to symbol MODULES
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From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>

Currently, the MODULES symbol is special-cased in different places in the
kconfig language. For example, if no symbol is defined to enable tristates,
then kconfig looks up for a symbol named 'MODULES', and forces the 'modules'
option onto that symbol.

This causes problems as such:
- since MODULES is special-cased, reading the configuration with
KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG set will forcibly set MODULES to be 'valid' (ie.
it has a valid value), when no such value was previously set. So
MODULES defaults to 'n' unless it is present in KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG
- other third-party projects may decide that 'MODULES' plays a different
role for them

This has been exposed by cset #cfa98f2e:
kconfig: do not override symbols already set
and reported by Stephen in:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=137592137915234&w=2

As suggested by Sam, we explicitly define the MODULES symbol to be the
tristate-enabler. This will allow us to drop special-casing of MODULES
in the kconfig language, later.

(Note: this patch is not a fix to Stephen's issue, just a first step).

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: yann.morin.1998@free.fr
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: sedat.dilek@gmail.com
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
---
init/Kconfig | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index 247084b..4d55e81 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1666,6 +1666,7 @@ config BASE_SMALL

menuconfig MODULES
bool "Enable loadable module support"
+ option modules
help
Kernel modules are small pieces of compiled code which can
be inserted in the running kernel, rather than being
--
1.8.1.2


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