Re: [PATCH 2/2] Kprobes: Build kretprobe samples only if arch supports kretprobes

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Mon Dec 10 2007 - 06:58:48 EST


On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 03:23:50PM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch builds samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c only on archs that
> support kretprobes.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> samples/kprobes/Makefile | 7 +++++--
> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.24-rc4/samples/kprobes/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.24-rc4.orig/samples/kprobes/Makefile
> +++ linux-2.6.24-rc4/samples/kprobes/Makefile
> @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
> # builds the kprobes example kernel modules;
> # then to use one (as root): insmod <module_name.ko>
>
> -obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_KPROBES) += kprobe_example.o jprobe_example.o \
> - kretprobe_example.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_KPROBES) += kprobe_example.o jprobe_example.o
> +
> +ifeq ($(CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES),y)
> +obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_KPROBES) += kretprobe_example.o
> +endif

It would be nice to push this configuration dependency to Kconfig.
Something like:

config SAMPLE_KRETPROBES
default y
depends on SAMPLE_KPROBES

And then in the Makefile have:
obj-$(CONFIG_SAMPLE_KRETPROBES) += kretprobe_example.o


Sam
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