Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly when CONFIG_MODULES=y

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Thu Mar 12 2020 - 04:40:07 EST


On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 03:12:28PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> I got the following report from 0-day bot.
> Please advise me how to fix it.
>
>
> I am not sure how multi-platform works in MIPS.
>
> The cavium-octeon platform has its own implementation
> of various functions.
>
> So, vmlinux links different library routines
> depending on whether CONFIG_CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC, correct?

for cavium memcpy is directly linked in via octeon-memcpy.o, while for
every other platform it's coming from lib/lib.a(memcpy.o).

What have you changed, that this doesn't work anymore ?

Thomas.

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