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Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 11:38:20 +0200
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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To: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
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        Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] kconfig: do not special-case 'MODULES' symbol
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On 3.9.2013 23:04, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
> 
> 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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