On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> This line was touched by commit f235541699bc ("export.h: allow for
> per-symbol configurable EXPORT_SYMBOL()"), but the commit log did
> not explain why.
>
> CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS works for me without defined(__KERNEL__).
I'm pretty sure it was needed back then so not to interfere with users
of this file. My fault for not documenting it.
Nicolas
