2015-11-24 16:31, Panu Matilainen: > The physically linked-together combined library has been an increasing > source of problems, as was predicted when library and symbol versioning > was introduced. Replace the complex and fragile construction with a > simple linker script which achieves the same without all the problems, > remove the related kludges from eg mlx drivers. > > Since creating the linker script is practically zero cost, remove the > config option and just create it always. > > Based on a patch by Sergio Gonzales Monroy, linker script approach > initially suggested by Neil Horman. > > Suggested-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com> > Suggested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> > Signed-off-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai at redhat.com>
As it is a big change and discussion is not totally closed, it is deferred to release 2.3. The fix from Ferruh could be sufficient for 2.2.
