Re: [PATCH v2] x86/head64: no need to define early_idt_ripmsg only if CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 01:58:15PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> We have definition of the early_idt_ripmsg which represents string header
> for the output of the kernel symbols during early exception. But the
> header with kernel symbols will be printed in a case if the CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y.

And this is a problem because... ?

Also, try to search how many distros and configs enable KALLSYMS. That
might clear some uncertainties when deciding to add one more ifdef to an
already hard to read code.

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