On Fri, 7 March 2003 09:27:07 -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> > The problem is that crc32.o isn't actually linked into the kernel,
> > because no symbols from it are referenced when the linker is asked to
> > pull in lib/lib.a
> >
> > Set CONFIG_CRC32=m. We probably shouldn't allow it to be set to 'Y' in
> > the first place., given the above.
>
> I think it'd be much nicer to just make it work, which can easily be done
> by moving the EXPORT_SYMBOL() to kernel/ksyms.c. Or, just move the entire
> file into kernel/ (which unfortunately isn't a very natural place for it.
> The real problem is that we need a lib/dont_drop_unreferenced/)
Is it just me, or does lib/lib._a_ not make too much sense? It is nice
to be speaking about the kernel library, but what are the benefits of
it being a .a instead of a .o?
Jörn
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