Re: [PATCH 1/3] kconfig: do not special-case 'MODULES' symbol

From: Michal Marek
Date: Thu Sep 05 2013 - 05:38:28 EST


On 3.9.2013 23:04, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@xxxxxxx>
>
> Currently, the 'MODULES' symbol is hard-coded to be the default symbol
> that enables/disables tristates, if no other symbol was declared with
> 'option modules'.
>
> While this used to be needed for the Linux kernel, we now have an
> explicit 'option modules' attached to the 'MODULES' symbol (since
> cset 11097a036), so we no longer need to special-case it in the
> kconfig code.
>
> Furthermore, kconfig is extensively used out of the Linux kernel, and
> other projects may have another meaning for a symbol named 'MODULES'.
>
> This patch changes the way we enable/disable tristates: if a symbol was
> found with 'option modules' attached to it, then that symbol controls
> enabling tristates. Otherwise, tristates are disabled, even if a symbol
> named 'MODULES' exists.

Wasn't this change supposed to fix allmodconfig with KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/8/573)? Or is there still more to do?
Because I'm still getting:

$ touch empty
$ make KCONFIG_ALLCONFIG=empty allmodconfig
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf --allmodconfig Kconfig
#
# configuration written to .config
#
$ grep MODULES .config
CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA=y
# CONFIG_MODULES is not set
$

Michal
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