It's not intuitively obvious that bpfilter_umh is a statically linked binary. Mention the toolchain requirement in the Kconfig help, so people have an easier time figuring out what's needed. Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> diff --git a/net/bpfilter/Kconfig b/net/bpfilter/Kconfig index fed9290e3b41..0ec6c7958c20 100644 --- a/net/bpfilter/Kconfig +++ b/net/bpfilter/Kconfig @@ -13,4 +13,8 @@ config BPFILTER_UMH default m help This builds bpfilter kernel module with embedded user mode helper + + Note: your toolchain must support building static binaries, since + rootfs isn't mounted at the time when __init functions are called + and do_execv won't be able to find the elf interpreter. endif
