On 01/16/14 at 02:46pm, Dave Young wrote: > On 01/15/14 at 08:04pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > On 01/15/2014 07:03 PM, Dave Young wrote: > > >> > > >> making something harder to grep and less standardized is hardly cleaner > > >> and these things compile to nothing for non-modules. > > > > > > It's not nothing, just very small increasement: > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > > 7636121 1391824 9355264 18383209 1188169 vmlinux > > > > > > text data bss dec hex filename > > > 7636113 1391824 9355264 18383201 1188161 vmlinux > > > > > > I do not want to insist on this minor problem, if you want please keep it. > > > > > > > Now *that* we can fix by making these macros expand to nothing if you > > are compiling for a nonmodule, right? That will benefit code that > > legitimately can compile as a module but is configured "y", too. > > I'm not sure expanding to nothing is a good fix. > > For built-in module we still can retrieve the module info in userspace via > /usr/sbin/modinfo, if we expand the Macros to nothing then userspace will > not see thus infomation anymore. > > Another advantage of built-in module is it has module specific parameters > which > should not necessary a generic kernel parameter. > > If the *module* is really a nonmodule, IMHO it should add the information to
Above I means add infomation to file comment section. > or add other macros macros instead of reuse the MODULE_*. > > BTW, for macros in this file, for a nonmodule "license GPL" is unnecessary at > all. > > Thanks > Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
