On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 1:32 AM Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > tristate.conf was dropped because it is not needed to build > modules.builtin any more, and doing so avoids one round of recursion > through the build tree to build it. But it has one property that can be > obtained in no other way in the current tree: it provides a > machine-readable record of whether a module is tristate or not. > (modules.builtin.objs, just added, uses modinfo, which is recorded in > the source files themselves, but it is Kconfig that actually controls > whether something can be built as a module.) > > So bring it back for this purpose. (Thanks to the refactoring in > the 5.16 timeframe, this is basically a reimplementation of commit > 8b41fc4454e36fbfdbb23f940d023d4dece2de29 rather than a simple > reversion.) > > A verifier that uses it will be added in the next commit. > > Signed-off-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Victor Erminpour <victor.erminpour@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@xxxxxxxxxx> IIRC, I said please do not do this. Please do not come back with this again. NACK. -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
