On 20.01.2021 17:09, Johannes Berg wrote: > 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? Sounds good! -- Peter Oberparleiter Linux on Z Development - IBM Germany
