Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] init/module: split CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS to fix module gcov on UML | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:09:01 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 17:07 +0100, Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
> Do you expect other users for these new config symbols?
Probably not.
> If not it seems > to me that the goal of enabling module constructors for UML could also > be achieved without introducing new config symbols.
Yeah, true.
> For example you could suppress calling any built-in kernel constructors > in case of UML by extending the ifdef in do_ctors() to depend on both > CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS and !CONFIG_UML (maybe with an explanatory comment). > > Of course you'd still need to remove the !UML dependency in > CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL.
Right.
I can post a separate patch and we can see which one looks nicer?
johannes
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