building with LTO enabled, I often get warnings about kernel/configs.c being empty when CONFIG_IKCONFIG is disabled: x86_64-linux/bin/nm: kernel/configs.o: no symbols Making the symbol visible is probably not the right solution, but it does get rid of the warning. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile index 7666ee88e237..40b48e3e87a2 100644 --- a/kernel/Makefile +++ b/kernel/Makefile @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ targets += config_data.gz $(obj)/config_data.gz: $(KCONFIG_CONFIG) FORCE $(call if_changed,gzip) - filechk_ikconfiggz = (echo "static const char kernel_config_data[] __used = MAGIC_START"; cat $< | scripts/basic/bin2c; echo "MAGIC_END;") + filechk_ikconfiggz = (echo "const char kernel_config_data[] __used __visible = MAGIC_START"; cat $< | scripts/basic/bin2c; echo "MAGIC_END;") targets += config_data.h $(obj)/config_data.h: $(obj)/config_data.gz FORCE $(call filechk,ikconfiggz) -- 2.9.0 -- 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