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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 18:47:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 02/10] module: allow symbol exports to be disabled
On Tue, 2 Jan 2018, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> To allow existing C code to be incorporated into the decompressor or
> the UEFI stub, introduce a CPP macro that turns all EXPORT_SYMBOL_xxx
> declarations into nops, and #define it in places where such exports
> are undesirable. Note that this gets rid of a rather dodgy redefine
> of linux/export.h's header guard.
[...]
> --- a/include/linux/export.h
> +++ b/include/linux/export.h
> @@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
> */
> #define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec) === __KSYM_##sym ===
>
> +#elif defined(__DISABLE_EXPORTS)
> +
> +/*
> + * Allow symbol exports to be disabled completely so that C code may
> + * be reused in other execution contexts such as the UEFI stub or the
> + * decompressor.
> + */
> +#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec)
> +
I think you should rather put this first thing in the #if sequence so to
override the defined(__KSYM_DEPS__) case too. No need to create build
dependencies for module symbols that you're going to stub out
afterwards anyway.
Nicolas
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