On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:19:23AM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > And this can break as soon as the "unused" object files contains
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL's.
> >
> > Is it really worth it doing it in this non-intuitive way?
>
> I don't think it non-intuitive, it's how libraries work. However, as you
> say, it is broken for files containing EXPORT_SYMBOL.
>
> The obvious fix for this case is the one that akpm mentioned way earlier
> in this thread, move parser.o into $(obj-y).
>
> It should be rather easy to have the kernel build system warn you when you
> compile library objects exporting symbols.
This warning sounds like a good plan (but it won't let many objects stay
inside lib-y).
> --Kai
cu
Adrian
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