On Wed, Feb 21, 2024, at 21:26, Jann Horn wrote:
> To compile code for absolute kallsyms, you had to turn off
> KALLSYMS_BASE_RELATIVE. I think based on the way it was declared in
> Kconfig (without a string after "bool"), it wasn't even possible to
> select it.
>
> Get rid of this config option, as preparation for some kallsyms
> optimizations that would otherwise be infeasible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Nice catch!
The code was needed until cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove
Itanium (IA-64) architecture"), and we missed that this
allowed the cleanup you now did.
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Arnd
