From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758177AbaEKMgO (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2014 08:36:14 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f169.google.com ([209.85.216.169]:52978 "EHLO mail-qc0-f169.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757245AbaEKMgJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 May 2014 08:36:09 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 08:36:05 -0400 From: Tejun Heo To: Randy Dunlap Cc: George Spelvin , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add lib/glob.c Message-ID: <20140511123605.GB22945@htj.dyndns.org> References: <20140510031356.22726.qmail@ns.horizon.com> <536E61EE.3000705@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <536E61EE.3000705@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:29:18AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > + select this option. Say N unless you are compiling an out-of > > + tree driver which tells you it depend on it. > > To support out-of-tree drivers, I'm pretty sure that you will need > to use obj- instead of lib-. lib- drops unused code, like Tejun said. I don't think we need to worry about out-of-tree drivers from the beginning. Thanks. -- tejun