linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.20.1602091158360.17825@knanqh.ubzr>
Date:	Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:04:52 -0500 (EST)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
cc:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] kconfig option for TRIM_UNUSED_EXPSYMS

On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 03:28:35PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > The config option to enable it all.
> 
> Just enable it by default..

:-)

Viro took the opposite view with this patch:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/3/1068

where he's ensuring that no exports are dropped, even if obviously 
they're not used (otherwise some complaints would have come about).  So 
I'm not sure if having this turned on by default is a good thing.

But I don't mind being convinced otherwise.

Nicolas