Re: lib.a causing modules not to load

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

In message <1068304571.2048.5.camel@mulgrave> you write:
> On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 02:51, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:34:19PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > How about we just link that function into the kernel and be done with it?
 
> > > We'll waste a few bytes on SMP machines which have neither ext2 nor ext3
> > > linked-in or loaded as modules, but that doesn't sound very important...
> > > 
> > > (We don't have a kernel/random-support-stuff.c, but we have
> > > mm/random-support-stuff.c which for some reason is called mm/swap.c, so
> > > I put it there).
> > 
> > Well, this solves the problem for this particular case, but not other
> > stuff in lib for other situations.
> 
> I agree...there's much more in lib than just percpu_counter_mod.

I think lib.a should be linked as is if !CONFIG_MODULES, and done as a
..o if CONFIG_MODULES.  Other alternatives are possible, but make it
tricky if someone adds a module later which wants something in lib.a.

Rusty.
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