Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
