Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] module: fix build for CONFIG_SYSFS=n

From: Rusty Russell <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:20:59 +1030

On Thursday 19 February 2009 05:45:29 Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > > Is destroy_params() dependent on SYSFS? If yes then it would be 
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > > far cleaner if there was a NOP destroy_params() inline for the 
> > > !SYSFS case.
...
> > From: Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > Fix this build error when CONFIG_SYSFS=n:

Thanks for the find Randy.  I chose to put it in the header.  People who turn
off SYSFS probably appreciate a few bytes saved:

diff --git a/include/linux/moduleparam.h b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
+++ b/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -139,7 +139,14 @@ extern int parse_args(const char *name,
 		      int (*unknown)(char *param, char *val));
 
 /* Called by module remove. */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
 extern void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params, unsigned num);
+#else
+static inline void destroy_params(const struct kernel_param *params,
+				  unsigned num)
+{
+}
+#endif /* !CONFIG_SYSFS */
 
 /* All the helper functions */
 /* The macros to do compile-time type checking stolen from Jakub

Cheers,
Rusty.