From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1ADDC48BD6 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 22:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44D42184C for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 22:21:22 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1561587682; bh=SEf59/aTYORotE0ONQAGQtOjxVf4gUWafDThzfWNYPY=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:List-ID:From; b=VEoxuXOlZiIPVAa3j6aNz278NoJeeLcz/AUqaK2hdZnD+4pJJrJD+n7CEaK16l+GI D+4jHzbONirxc2vFE5EWooPWq9Tn/ogO9/qNBk9ZFKhHNg2iPn4RAiBgKA5+EYivJJ YTrnYthOB9joy/vzY2ASJ+KXMT1HQ+4ALW2j/6d0= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726293AbfFZWVW (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:21:22 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:45246 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726239AbfFZWVW (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:21:22 -0400 Received: from mail-vs1-f46.google.com (mail-vs1-f46.google.com [209.85.217.46]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6062E217F4; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 22:21:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1561587681; bh=Tqz80iJYZg/0GvkxSfm5luZWdZskDvCbYXS8JM/P41M=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:From; b=rDRINPrARYm4y0gTMKieViIBMlqLk3pfnXd5IX5+U0eQmw2kxZF/3a0rjGwTKySrr MG1EkmO5tV9AOiFnuzSNFhgmLZRPX99sIh0nZcKUbjTRMX2v8nLdVYLvrDGOSexOcf VzU/Ol9q0oq/agucEG8UfeMFWJQg7/Cf8EnIwDDE= Received: by mail-vs1-f46.google.com with SMTP id m8so295376vsj.0; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:21:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAUS0Mjo4O9cnmerQYbEoyhNKyz/m996M3Xge9mPWJqt49RZqZoi 8HXd7IpwPcD6RvKZLSeqdvvqz6WzOX3CMMOc6rU= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxiURrS3kYi96trsVNlLi7NqOcM8326ys8JoB7UHyO3AYKMXjoykeMiQXetdNc9DXfJMTI9H3ax6sGVyKS63kE= X-Received: by 2002:a67:1143:: with SMTP id 64mr472922vsr.133.1561587680499; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:21:20 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1471462023-119645-1-git-send-email-cristina.moraru09@gmail.com> <20160818175505.GM3296@wotan.suse.de> <20160825074313.GC18622@lst.de> <20160825201919.GE3296@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: From: Luis Chamberlain Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:21:08 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add CONFIG symbol as module attribute To: Christoph Hellwig , Brendan Higgins Cc: Cristina Moraru , "vegard.nossum@gmail.com" , Valentin Rothberg , Hannes Reinecke , Sam Ravnborg , Michal Marek , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Tom Gundersen , Kay Sievers , Rusty Russell , Andrew Morton , backports@vger.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "rafael.j.wysocki" , Dmitry Torokhov , Takashi Iwai , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Johannes Berg , Hauke Mehrtens , Paul Bolle , Paul Gortmaker , Alexey Khoroshilov , Sathya Prakash Veerichetty , "Martin K. Petersen" , Laurence Oberman , Johannes Thumshirn , Tejun Heo , Jej B , "Theodore Ts'o" , Daniel Jonsson , Andrzej Wasowski Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: backports-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: backports@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:07 PM Luis Chamberlain wrote: > In lieu of no Luke Skywalker, if you will, for a large kconfig revamp > on this, I'm inclined to believe *at least* having some kconfig_symb > exposed for some modules is better than nothing. Christoph are you > totally opposed to this effort until we get a non-reverse engineered > effort in place? It just seems like an extraordinary amount of work > and I'm not quite sure who's volunteering to do it. > > Other stakeholders may benefit from at least having some config --> > module mapping for now. Not just backports or building slimmer > kernels. Christoph, *poke* Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in