Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add CONFIG symbol as module attribute

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jun 27 2019 - 00:51:29 EST


On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 03:21:08PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:07 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> 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*

Yes, I'm still totally opposed to a half-backed hack like this.