I got acknowledge to remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX entirely. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/5/148) Several tools can be cleaned-up. Removing the CONFIG option makes VMLINUX_SYMBOL() no-op, so this macro can be removed too. VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() are widely used, so it will take some time to kill them entirely. (I will send other patches later, splitting per-arch) Masahiro Yamada (8): modpost: remove symbol prefix support genksyms: remove symbol prefix support kallsyms: remove symbol prefix support depmod.sh: remove symbol prefix support export.h: remove code for prefixing symbols with underscore kbuild: remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX vmlinux.lds.h: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL() checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check Makefile | 2 +- arch/Kconfig | 6 - include/asm-generic/export.h | 34 ++--- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 289 +++++++++++++++++++------------------- include/linux/export.h | 16 +-- scripts/Makefile.build | 9 +- scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh | 3 - scripts/checkpatch.pl | 10 -- scripts/depmod.sh | 21 +-- scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c | 11 +- scripts/kallsyms.c | 47 ++----- scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 4 - scripts/mod/modpost.c | 30 ++-- 13 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 294 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4 -- 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