From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: lib-y vs EXPORT_SYMBOL: who wins?
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:07:44 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190696865.27805.317.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
Various files under lib/ are linked into a .a so they only get linked if
needed. But many of these functions are also EXPORT_SYMBOL()ed.
This doesn't really make sense: if it's exported it really needs to be
present. Certain configurations can hit this (lguest uses kasprintf,
and can be a module).
We could do something hacky and try to figure out if any modules need
the symbols, which screws modules built later, but is no worse than a
CONFIG_-based solution.
Or to we just move all the exported functions out of the .a?
Cheers,
Rusty.
next reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 5:08 UTC|newest]
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2007-09-25 5:07 Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-09-25 6:13 ` lib-y vs EXPORT_SYMBOL: who wins? Sam Ravnborg
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