Re: [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS

From	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS
Date	2016-02-10 00:40 +0100
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Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> writes:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:28:35PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> > The config option to enable it all.
>> 
>> Just enable it by default..
>
> :-)
>
> Viro took the opposite view with this patch:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/3/1068
>
> where he's ensuring that no exports are dropped, even if obviously 
> they're not used (otherwise some complaints would have come about).  So 
> I'm not sure if having this turned on by default is a good thing.
>
> But I don't mind being convinced otherwise.

People do build out-of-tree modules.  Dropping support for that would
simplify our lives, but seems fairly controversial :)

Cheers,
Rusty.

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Re: [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-02-09 14:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2016-02-09 14:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> - 2016-02-09 18:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> - 2016-02-10 00:40 +0100

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