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From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add CONFIG symbol as module attribute
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On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:07 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
> In lieu of no Luke Skywalker, if you will, for a large kconfig revamp
> on this, I'm inclined to believe *at least* having some kconfig_symb
> exposed for some modules is better than nothing. Christoph are you
> totally opposed to this effort until we get a non-reverse engineered
> effort in place? It just seems like an extraordinary amount of work
> and I'm not quite sure who's volunteering to do it.
>
> Other stakeholders may benefit from at least having some config -->
> module mapping for now. Not just backports or building slimmer
> kernels.

Christoph, *poke*

  Luis