Re: [PATCH] kprobes: remove redundant config check

[Abhishek Sagar]

On 6/11/08, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Abhishek,
>
>  This was intentional (to take care of some gcc 4.2 issues). See commit
>  cd5bfea278987ebfe60f3ff92a01696b17c4f978 (fix compilation with gcc 4.2)
>  from Peter Chubb for details.

Yea, I checked it out and the problem the commit seems to be fixing is that
EXPORT_SYMBOL  complains for static symbols with gcc-4.2. Can't see why
there was a need to cram CONFIG_KPROBES inside kprobes.c. This
check was sneaked in defensively it seems, and is unnecessary.

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Regards,
Abhishek Sagar
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