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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Arun Prasad <arun@netlab.hcltech.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: 2.5.51 CRC32 undefined
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:43:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030307154303.GA21502@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303070922580.26430-100000@chaos.physics.uiowa.edu>

> On 7 Mar 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > The problem is that crc32.o isn't actually linked into the kernel,
> > because no symbols from it are referenced when the linker is asked to
> > pull in lib/lib.a
> > 
> > Set CONFIG_CRC32=m. We probably shouldn't allow it to be set to 'Y' in
> > the first place., given the above.

The solution is to fix the problem, not force a module.

There are weirdos like Linus that don't use modules at all, and
other developers who still don't use modules due to the module
loader changes...

	Jeff





  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-07 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-06 13:22 2.5.51 CRC32 undefined Arun Prasad
2003-03-07 12:40 ` David Woodhouse
2003-03-07 15:27   ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-03-07 15:43     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-03-10 13:14     ` =?unknown-8bit?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel
2003-03-07 15:49   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-07 15:59     ` David Woodhouse
2003-03-07 16:10       ` Jeff Garzik

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