[PATCH 0/2] do not select KALLSYMS_ALL

Paulo Marques pmarques at grupopie.com
Fri Apr 1 11:54:53 EDT 2011


Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 16:34 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
>>[...]
>> With an automatic makefile mechanism, the problem would go unnoticed and
>> it just wouldn't be fixed, increasing the kernel compile time for
>> everyone who hits the same troublesome configuration.
> 
> Yes, the build system may print a message:
> 
> Your symbols table is screwed, this is a bug, report about it. As a
> temporary workaround use "make KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1"
> 
> Or something like that.

Yes, I think that would work too, and it would even prevent the option
from being on for no good reason.

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