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Re: [PATCH -next] bpf: make inode code explicitly non-modular

From Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH -next] bpf: make inode code explicitly non-modular
Date 2016-07-11 19:30 +0200
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On 07/11/2016 06:51 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> init/Kconfig:config BPF_SYSCALL
> init/Kconfig:   bool "Enable bpf() system call"
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> Lets remove the couple traces of modular infrastructure use, so that
> when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
>
> Note that MODULE_ALIAS is a no-op for non-modular code.
>
> We replace module.h with init.h since the file does use __init.
>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

(Patch is for net-next tree then.)

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

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[PATCH -next] bpf: make inode code explicitly non-modular Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> - 2016-07-11 19:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH -next] bpf: make inode code explicitly non-modular Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> - 2016-07-11 19:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH -next] bpf: make inode code explicitly non-modular David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-07-11 23:00 +0200

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