From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>,
sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rename net_random to random32
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:46:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061028164652.GA22673@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061013181922.GB721@stusta.de>
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 08:19:22PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/lib/random32.c
> >...
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(random32);
> >...
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(srandom32);
> >...
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL's in lib-y are latent bugs (IMHO kbuild should error
> on them):
>
> The problem is that if only modules use these functions, they will be
> omitted from the kernel image.
In fact we should really really just kill lib-y completely. Leaving
the control of what gets built in to the linker shound like a really
bad idea in our enviroment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-28 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200610111900.k9BJ01M4021853@hera.kernel.org>
2006-10-11 19:22 ` [PATCH] Add carta_random32() library routine Jeff Garzik
2006-10-11 19:29 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-12 7:07 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-12 17:26 ` [PATCH] rename net_random to random32 Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-12 21:43 ` David Miller
2006-10-13 18:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-13 18:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-10-13 19:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-13 22:14 ` David Miller
2006-10-14 10:41 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-10-28 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-10-11 19:39 ` [PATCH] Add carta_random32() library routine Andrew Morton
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