On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 02:45:21PM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote: > If TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled, all unneeded exported symbols are made > unexported. Two-pass build of the kernel is done to find out which > symbols are needed based on a configuration. This effectively > complicates things for out-of-tree modules. > > Livepatch exports functions to (un)register and enable/disable a live > patch. The only in-tree module which uses these functions is a sample in > samples/livepatch/. If the sample is disabled, the functions are > trimmed and out-of-tree live patches cannot be built. > > Note that live patches are intended to be built out-of-tree. > > Suggested-by: Michal Marek <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> -- Josh

