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[6/7] kconfig: keep config.gz around even if CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not set

Message ID 20090430185222.696995168@goodmis.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Steven Rostedt April 30, 2009, 6:50 p.m. UTC 
From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

If CONFIG_IKCONFIG is set but CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC is not, then
gcc will optibize the config.gz out, because nobody uses it.

This patch adds "__used" to the config.gz data to keep it around so that
code like extract-ikconfig can still find it.

[ Impact: allow extract-ikconfig to find config.gz ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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 kernel/Makefile |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/kernel/Makefile b/kernel/Makefile
index 4242366..f10c7c7 100644
--- a/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/kernel/Makefile
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@  $(obj)/config_data.gz: .config FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,gzip)
 
 quiet_cmd_ikconfiggz = IKCFG   $@
-      cmd_ikconfiggz = (echo "static const char kernel_config_data[] = MAGIC_START"; cat $< | scripts/bin2c; echo "MAGIC_END;") > $@
+      cmd_ikconfiggz = (echo "static const char kernel_config_data[] __used = MAGIC_START"; cat $< | scripts/bin2c; echo "MAGIC_END;") > $@
 targets += config_data.h
 $(obj)/config_data.h: $(obj)/config_data.gz FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,ikconfiggz)