Re: [PATCH 1/2] export.h: remove defined(__KERNEL__)

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 1:06 AM Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>
> > Hi Nicolas,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 10:48 PM Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 9 Sep 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > >
> > > > This line was touched by commit f235541699bc ("export.h: allow for
> > > > per-symbol configurable EXPORT_SYMBOL()"), but the commit log did
> > > > not explain why.
> > > >
> > > > CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS works for me without defined(__KERNEL__).
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure it was needed back then so not to interfere with users
> > > of this file. My fault for not documenting it.
> >
> > Hmm, I did not see a problem in my quick build test.
> >
> > Do you remember which file was causing the problem?
>
> If you build commit 7ec925701f5f with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y and the
> defined(__KERNEL__) test removed then you'll get:
>
>   HOSTCC  scripts/mod/modpost.o
> In file included from scripts/mod/modpost.c:24:
> scripts/mod/../../include/linux/export.h:81:10: fatal error: linux/kconfig.h: No such file or directory
>
>
> Nicolas


Thanks for explaining this.

It is not the case any more.


I will reword the commit message as follows:

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export.h: remove defined(__KERNEL__), which is no longer needed

The conditional define(__KERNEL__) was added by commit f235541699bc
("export.h: allow for per-symbol configurable EXPORT_SYMBOL()").

It was needed at that time to avoid the build error of modpost
with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y.

Since commit b2c5cdcfd4bc ("modpost: remove symbol prefix support"),
modpost no longer includes linux/export.h, thus the define(__KERNEL__)
is unneeded.
------------------------>8---------------------------------------



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada