From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751815AbcGRKox (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2016 06:44:53 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f43.google.com ([209.85.218.43]:34227 "EHLO mail-oi0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751326AbcGRKot (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jul 2016 06:44:49 -0400 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" From: Arend Van Spriel Subject: side-effect when enabling CONFIG_MODULES Message-ID: <982a0742-4046-117a-0ed4-63774941950e@broadcom.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:44:45 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org A question for whoever can provide the answer. I have a kernel defconfig with everything built-in. However, I want to compile a driver module against it for testing. So I enabled CONFING_MODULES, but as a side-effect several implicitly selected config options changed from CONFIG_FOO=y to CONFIG_FOO=m giving me slightly different kernel at least when looking at the vmlinux. So I just did sed -i 's/=m/=y/' .config, but I was wondering if that step can be avoided somehow? Regards, Arend