Re: [PATCH] init/module: split CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS to fix module gcov on UML

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 17:07 +0100, Peter Oberparleiter wrote:

> Do you expect other users for these new config symbols? 

Probably not.

> If not it seems
> to me that the goal of enabling module constructors for UML could also
> be achieved without introducing new config symbols.

Yeah, true.

> For example you could suppress calling any built-in kernel constructors
> in case of UML by extending the ifdef in do_ctors() to depend on both
> CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS and !CONFIG_UML (maybe with an explanatory comment).
> 
> Of course you'd still need to remove the !UML dependency in
> CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL.

Right.

I can post a separate patch and we can see which one looks nicer?

johannes