Re: Build failure (with insane config)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:34:12PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> For x86-64, arch/x86/lib/Makefile has:
> 
>         lib-y += csum-partial_64.o csum-copy_64.o csum-wrappers_64.o
> 
> so in particular ip_compute_csum() (from csum-partial_64.c) gets put in
> libs, so even though it is exported, it gets thrown away at link time if
> there are no non-modular users.
> 
> However, if someone has an insane config with CONFIG_NET=n and
> CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=m, then ip_compute_csum() gets discarded but the
> modular code in drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-cards.c calls it and...
> 
>         ERROR: "ip_compute_csum" [drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv.ko] undefined!
> 
> I guess one fix is just to put at least csum-partial_64.c in obj-y
> instead; it does seem broken to have files with EXPORT_SYMBOL() be
> lib-y, since it is really an invitation for this problem.  Other ideas
> would be for bttv to depend on or select CONFIG_NET.
>...

This isn't the first time csum-partial_64.c is involved in such a kind 
of breakage (and we constantly have this kind of bugs with various 
exports from lib-y), and EXPORT_SYMBOL's in lib-y are simply wrong and 
always bugs waiting to happen.

Axing lib-y is somewhere low priority on my TODO list.

>  - R.

cu
Adrian

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