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Message-ID: <20120820094935.GD16230@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:49:35 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...abs.org>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org, mmarek@...e.cz, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	JBeulich@...e.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 27/74] lto: Mark EXPORT_SYMBOL symbols __visible

> Really, why?  Seems like a win to have them eliminated if unused.
> 
> Naively, I would think many cases of __visible should be #ifdef
> CONFIG_MODULES.  What am I missing?

It worked around some problem I forgot now :)

You're right it shouldn't be needed in theory for !MODULES. I'll double
check.

-Andi

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