Re: [PATCH] genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()

[Jan Beulich]

>>> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 23.11.09 03:40 >>>
>On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:52:51 +0000 "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Despite being unused these should also get a CRC calculated.
>
>why?

Primarily I view this as a consistency thing. But I also think this is one of
the reasons why __crc_* need to be weak (which I think should be
avoided, and hence we should have the goal to eliminate this so that
failure to calculate a proper CRC for a symbol causes the build to fail).

Jan

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