Re: [PATCH -next] bpf: make inode code explicitly non-modular

[David Miller]

From: Paul Gortmaker 
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:51:01 -0400

> The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:
> 
> init/Kconfig:config BPF_SYSCALL
> init/Kconfig:   bool "Enable bpf() system call"
> 
> ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.
> 
> Lets remove the couple traces of modular infrastructure use, so that
> when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.
> 
> Note that MODULE_ALIAS is a no-op for non-modular code.
> 
> We replace module.h with init.h since the file does use __init.
> 
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 

Applied.

Re: [PATCH -next] bpf: make inode code explicitly non-modular

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 07/11/2016 06:51 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is:

init/Kconfig:config BPF_SYSCALL
init/Kconfig:   bool "Enable bpf() system call"

...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.

Lets remove the couple traces of modular infrastructure use, so that
when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.

Note that MODULE_ALIAS is a no-op for non-modular code.

We replace module.h with init.h since the file does use __init.

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker 


(Patch is for net-next tree then.)

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann