On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:48 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:06:35PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 15:22 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 03:49:56PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > > Matt wrote:
> > > > > This lets it get shared outside of proc/ and linked in only when needed.
> > > >
> > > > Erk, this really belongs in the mm dir. You can use "lib-y +=
> > > > pagewalk.o" there, and it seems to work as well as doing it in lib.
> > >
> > > Are you sure? I tested that a few months ago and it didn't work for
> > > me. I seem to recall it wanted a chunk of makefile surgery.
> >
> > Well, I tested here and it worked unless I screwed something (producing
> > lib.a in mm/ and linking it in). And when I turned off all the CONFIG
> > options which required it, the symbols disappeared from the vmlinux...
>
> I think you had some additional change somewhere...
> kbuild will only look for lib.a files (produced from all files
> listed with lib-y _except_ files listed with obj-y too).
You're right: mm/lib.a gets built, but not linked in. Sorry for the
false report...
Rusty.
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