On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:45:38PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:08:40 -0800
> Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
> >
> > NTFS (=m) uses hweight32(), but that function is only linked
> > into the kernel image if it is used inside the kernel image,
> > not in loadable modules. Let modules force HWEIGHT to be
> > built into the kernel image. Otherwise build fails:
> >
> > Building modules, stage 2.
> > MODPOST 94 modules
> > WARNING: "hweight32" [fs/ntfs/ntfs.ko] undefined!
> >
> > Yes, I'd certainly prefer for this to be more automated rather than
> > forced by each module that needs it.
>
> Perhaps we should just put it in lib-y and remove CONFIG_GENERIC_HWEIGHT.
>...
This will obviously not help in this case...
EXPORT_SYMBOL() in a lib-* is always a bug.
cu
Adrian
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