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From: "Abhishek Sagar" <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
To: ananth@in.ibm.com
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Masami Hiramatsu" <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kprobes: remove redundant config check
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:23:54 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <863e9df20806102253p4161e5bfv96ecc8ac5b4f9a89@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080611035955.GA19154@in.ibm.com>

On 6/11/08, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> Abhishek,
>
>  This was intentional (to take care of some gcc 4.2 issues). See commit
>  cd5bfea278987ebfe60f3ff92a01696b17c4f978 (fix compilation with gcc 4.2)
>  from Peter Chubb for details.

Yea, I checked it out and the problem the commit seems to be fixing is that
EXPORT_SYMBOL  complains for static symbols with gcc-4.2. Can't see why
there was a need to cram CONFIG_KPROBES inside kprobes.c. This
check was sneaked in defensively it seems, and is unnecessary.

--
Regards,
Abhishek Sagar

      reply	other threads:[~2008-06-11  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-10 17:13 Abhishek Sagar
2008-06-10 19:35 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-06-11  3:59 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2008-06-11  5:53   ` Abhishek Sagar [this message]

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