From: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc64: fix modpost failure
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:48:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0901161237430.2120@math.ut.ee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090116101449.GA20332@uranus.ravnborg.org>
> Previously PeeCeeI.o was a library but it
> was always pulled in due to insw and friends being exported
> (at least for a modular kernel).
>
> But this resulted in modpost failures if there where no in-kernel
> users because then insw & friends were not linked in.
>
> Fix this by including PeeCeeI.o in the kernel unconditionally.
>
> The only drawback for this solution is that a nonmodular kernel
> will always include insw & friends no matter if they are in use or not.
>
> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
And it works too.
--
Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-16 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-16 10:14 [PATCH] sparc64: fix modpost failure Sam Ravnborg
2009-01-16 10:48 ` Meelis Roos [this message]
2009-01-18 7:12 ` David Miller
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