Re: [PATCH 0/8] kbuild: remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX and clean-up code

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Hi Masahiro.

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 04:23:44PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> 
> 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.
Looks good. You can add my:
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

for all patches.
One minor comment to one patch that I let you decide what to do about.
The code readability increases everywhere.

> 
> 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)

There are a few files outside arch/ like
certs/system_certificates.S
drivers/mtd/chips/gen_probe.c
kernel/module.c

They could belong in this none-arch series.

	Sam
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