uselib: default depending if libc5 was used
authorRiku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:58:13 +0000 (16:58 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 19:17:24 +0000 (11:17 -0800)
uselib hasn't been used since libc5; glibc does not use it.  Deprecate
uselib a bit more, by making the default y only if libc5 was widely used
on the plaform.

This makes arm64 kernel built with defconfig slightly smaller

bloat-o-meter:
  add/remove: 0/3 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-1390 (-1390)
  function                                     old     new   delta
  kernel_config_data                         18164   18162      -2
  uselib_flags                                  20       -     -20
  padzero                                      216     192     -24
  sys_uselib                                   380       -    -380
  load_elf_library                             964       -    -964

Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
init/Kconfig

index 5481b49e8c3f2a1e732fbe751e97b2d7b7d0bc0a..4644217b237341513e67c861d03d8df063702c62 100644 (file)
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ config FHANDLE
 
 config USELIB
        bool "uselib syscall"
-       default y
+       def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
        help
          This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
          dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier.  glibc does not use this