On 01/15/14 at 08:04pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/15/2014 07:03 PM, Dave Young wrote: > >> > >> making something harder to grep and less standardized is hardly cleaner > >> and these things compile to nothing for non-modules. > > > > It's not nothing, just very small increasement: > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 7636121 1391824 9355264 18383209 1188169 vmlinux > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > 7636113 1391824 9355264 18383201 1188161 vmlinux > > > > I do not want to insist on this minor problem, if you want please keep it. > > > > Now *that* we can fix by making these macros expand to nothing if you > are compiling for a nonmodule, right? That will benefit code that > legitimately can compile as a module but is configured "y", too. I'm not sure expanding to nothing is a good fix. For built-in module we still can retrieve the module info in userspace via /usr/sbin/modinfo, if we expand the Macros to nothing then userspace will not see thus infomation anymore. Another advantage of built-in module is it has module specific parameters which should not necessary a generic kernel parameter. If the *module* is really a nonmodule, IMHO it should add the information to or add other macros macros instead of reuse the MODULE_*. BTW, for macros in this file, for a nonmodule "license GPL" is unnecessary at all. Thanks Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
