Re: [PATCH] livepatch: Make livepatch dependent on !TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 26 May 2017, Miroslav Benes wrote:

> If TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled, all unneeded exported symbols are made
> unexported. Two-pass build of the kernel is done to find out which
> symbols are needed based on a configuration. This effectively
> complicates things for out-of-tree modules.
> 
> Livepatch exports functions to (un)register and enable/disable a live
> patch. The only in-tree module which uses these functions is a sample in
> samples/livepatch/. If the sample is disabled, the functions are
> trimmed and out-of-tree live patches cannot be built.
> 
> Note that live patches are intended to be built out-of-tree.
> 
> Suggested-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs