netdev - Re: [PATCH -next] bpf: make inode code explicitly non-modular

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:28:48 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] bpf: make inode code explicitly non-modular

On 07/11/2016 06:51 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
>
> init/Kconfig:config BPF_SYSCALL
> init/Kconfig:   bool "Enable bpf() system call"
>
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
>
> Lets remove the couple traces of modular infrastructure use, so that
> when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
>
> Note that MODULE_ALIAS is a no-op for non-modular code.
>
> We replace module.h with init.h since the file does use __init.
>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>

(Patch is for net-next tree then.)

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>