On Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 5:05 PM EET, Masami Hiramatsu (Google) wrote: > > According to kconfig-language.txt: > > > > "select should be used with care. select will force a symbol to a value > > without visiting the dependencies." > > > > So the problem here lies in KPROBES config entry using select statement > > to pick ALLOC_EXECMEM. It will not take the depends on statement into > > account and thus will allow to select kprobes without any allocator in > > place. > > OK, in that case "depend on" is good.
Yeah, did not remember this at all. Only recalled when I started to get linking errors when compiling just the first patch... It's a bit uninituitive twist in kconfig :-) BR, Jarkko
