From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756180AbcBIXhI (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2016 18:37:08 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:39047 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754218AbcBIXhG (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Feb 2016 18:37:06 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Nicolas Pitre , Christoph Hellwig Cc: Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS In-Reply-To: References: <1454963315-20468-1-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> <1454963315-20468-7-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> <20160209132840.GA7303@infradead.org> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.20.2 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 10:00:25 +1030 Message-ID: <87twlhzcku.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicolas Pitre writes: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:28:35PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> > The config option to enable it all. >> >> Just enable it by default.. > > :-) > > Viro took the opposite view with this patch: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/3/1068 > > where he's ensuring that no exports are dropped, even if obviously > they're not used (otherwise some complaints would have come about). So > I'm not sure if having this turned on by default is a good thing. > > But I don't mind being convinced otherwise. People do build out-of-tree modules. Dropping support for that would simplify our lives, but seems fairly controversial :) Cheers, Rusty.