Re: [PATCH] Disable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS when not needed by CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL

[AmÃrico Wang]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS controls support for running constructor functions
> at kernel init time. ÂAccording to commit
> b99b87f70c7785ab1e253c6220f4b0b57ce3a7f7, gcov (CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL)
> needs this. ÂHowever, CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS currently defaults to y, with
> no option to disable it, and CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL depends on it. ÂInstead,
> default it to n and have CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL select it, so that the
> normal case of CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=n will result in
> CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=n.
>
> Observed in the short list of =y values in a minimal kernel
> configuration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah, this is reasonable, so,

Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
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