On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:48 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:06:35PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 15:22 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 03:49:56PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > Matt wrote: > > > > > This lets it get shared outside of proc/ and linked in only when > > > > > needed. > > > > > > > > Erk, this really belongs in the mm dir. You can use "lib-y += > > > > pagewalk.o" there, and it seems to work as well as doing it in lib. > > > > > > Are you sure? I tested that a few months ago and it didn't work for > > > me. I seem to recall it wanted a chunk of makefile surgery. > > > > Well, I tested here and it worked unless I screwed something (producing > > lib.a in mm/ and linking it in). And when I turned off all the CONFIG > > options which required it, the symbols disappeared from the vmlinux... > > I think you had some additional change somewhere... > kbuild will only look for lib.a files (produced from all files > listed with lib-y _except_ files listed with obj-y too).
You're right: mm/lib.a gets built, but not linked in. Sorry for the false report... Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
