Re: [PATCH v2] kernel/module.c: heuristic enhancement when INSTALL_MOD_STRIP= "--strip-unneeded" is used

[Luis Chamberlain]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 06:38:02AM +0530, Vimal Agrawal wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 12:17 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I don't think we can support passing arbitrary linker options and
> > expects things to work.  If we want to support --strip-unneeded
> > it needs a good rationale and be added as a direct config option.
> INSTALL_MOD_STRIP was provided to give flexibility for providing
> strippping options.

Yes but the point here is the heuristic you are adding for
when "--strip-unneeded" is used is now *always* being used and
we have no way of knowing this. So I'd agree with Christoph that
if we want to support this it might make sense to make a kconfig
option for enabling "--strip-unneeded" and then another for this
heuristic.

You may want to work on top of Aaron's patches as that would make
adding new kconfig entries for modules much cleaner:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220106234319.2067842-1-atomlin@xxxxxxxxxx

I hope to review those this week, so I might have a tree you can
work off on by the end of this or next week.

  Luis