From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [module-init-tools] fix weak symbol handling
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:56:58 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030117085728.1C0FF2C186@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:34:14 -0000." <30299.1042788854@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>
In message <30299.1042788854@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> you write:
>
> rth@twiddle.net said:
> > Well, that depends on whether A defines S or not. If A does define S,
> > then I don't care. I'd say "no", A does not depend on B. If A does
> > not define S, then most definitely "yes", as with any other
> > definition.
>
> As long as doing so doesn't make modprobe fail to load A when B isn't
> present or refuses to load. Otherwise what was the point in making it weak?
If A depends on B, then modprobe will give a warning if "modprobe A"
fails to load B for some reason. If B doesn't exist, then modprobe
wouldn't know anything about it (presumably).
Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-17 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-13 19:04 [module-init-tools] fix weak symbol handling Richard Henderson
2003-01-14 3:16 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-15 1:14 ` Richard Henderson
2003-01-17 1:57 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-17 2:09 ` Richard Henderson
2003-01-17 7:34 ` David Woodhouse
2003-01-17 8:56 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2003-01-17 9:32 ` David Woodhouse
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