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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: maps2-move-the-page-walker-code-to-lib.patch
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:06:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184033195.6005.439.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070709202217.GS11115@waste.org>

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...

Rusty.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-08  5:49 maps2-move-the-page-walker-code-to-lib.patch Rusty Russell
2007-07-08  9:46 ` maps2-move-the-page-walker-code-to-lib.patch Nick Piggin
2007-07-09 20:22 ` maps2-move-the-page-walker-code-to-lib.patch Matt Mackall
2007-07-10  2:06   ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-07-13 20:48     ` maps2-move-the-page-walker-code-to-lib.patch Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-17  1:09       ` maps2-move-the-page-walker-code-to-lib.patch Rusty Russell

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