From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946651AbXD3TmK (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:42:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946740AbXD3TmK (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:42:10 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.239]:2227 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946651AbXD3TmG (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:42:06 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gsbs7tq2wScum1E2UHyzQciGD/jFbTj0s3AdK7cpjIE0foMTQ/e5rS6FSAInLrUBLvZhDs+hZFwbbVlSIhgZ11UUoNkDr6a7KBLaU8AbiXpMZziyPxkoaIOTZAujT+GeW1p/uHjIXY31h2fkCGL0QMetfPqnBVGFdXuQIMRTviU= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:42:04 +0200 From: "Markus Rechberger" To: "Jan Engelhardt" Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities Cc: "Uwe Bugla" , "Mauro Carvalho Chehab" , helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-dvb@linuxtv.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070429182209.267430@gmx.net> <20070429230037.95120@gmx.net> <1177894713.3046.5.camel@pc06.localdom.local> <20070430110255.267000@gmx.net> <4635D139.4030609@aitel.hist.no> <20070430115000.194060@gmx.net> <4636058B.3070603@aitel.hist.no> <20070430172547.204810@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/30/07, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Apr 30 2007 19:25, Uwe Bugla wrote: > > >THIS PATCH IS DONE TO AVOID RAM WASTE FOR CASES IN WHICH IT IS PROVEN THAT > DST > >AND DST_CA ARE NOT NEEDED AT ALL!!!! > >[...] > > > How much on the Theo-meter are we yet? > it's enough, I told him that I'll look at it and try to get some other people involved if it really breaks something it should get stated out; and I'll refuse any further help if he starts to write any more abusive mail. So to his proposal: the whole noise is about following Makefile patch: -obj-$(CONFIG_DVB_BT8XX) += bt878.o dvb-bt8xx.o dst.o dst_ca.o +obj-$(CONFIG_DVB_BT8XX) += bt878.o dvb-bt8xx.o +obj-$(CONFIG_DVB_DST) += dst.o +obj-$(CONFIG_DVB_DST_CA) += dst_ca.o that symbol_request is unable to return a valid pointer if DST an DST_CA aren't selected should be ok because this would only happen if someone didn't compile them in (an appropriate error message should be added for that) I'm trying to look closer at this issue with some other developers, if it's really that easy to split off the dst module from the bt* objects without breaking anything, to me the direction this patch goes seems to be ok, some people stated out that there are problems so I'll try to get more information about that. Markus