From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262024AbVGVDKm (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:10:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262021AbVGVDKl (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:10:41 -0400 Received: from siaag2ag.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.140]:28965 "EHLO siaag2ag.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262024AbVGVDKb (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:10:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:06:21 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Why build empty object files in drivers/media? To: linux-kernel Cc: Johannes Stezenbach , Adrian Bunk Message-ID: <200507212309_MC3-1-A534-95EE@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have this in my .config file for 2.6.13-rc3: # # Multimedia devices # # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set # # Digital Video Broadcasting Devices # # CONFIG_DVB is not set And yet these completely empty files are being built: $ find drivers/media -name built-in.o | xargs ls -go -rw-rw-r-- 1 305 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/common/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 305 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/cinergyT2/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/frontends/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/pluto2/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-budget/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/radio/built-in.o -rw-rw-r-- 1 8 Jul 16 00:20 drivers/media/video/built-in.o $ size drivers/media/built-in.o text data bss dec hex filename 0 0 0 0 0 drivers/media/built-in.o __ Chuck