From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lib.a causing modules not to load
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:06:09 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031119014155.50D362C0C7@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "18 Nov 2003 10:25:16 MDT." <1069172719.1835.30.camel@mulgrave>
In message <1069172719.1835.30.camel@mulgrave> you write:
> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 20:47, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > I think lib.a should be linked as is if !CONFIG_MODULES, and done as a
> > ..o if CONFIG_MODULES. Other alternatives are possible, but make it
> > tricky if someone adds a module later which wants something in lib.a.
>
> I tried this and it is getting to be a whole nasty mess can of worms:
>
> You can't link the lib objects all in, because they can be overridden by
> the arch dependent lib.a (we rely on link order to permit this). For
> instance on x86, dump_stack and bust_spinlocks give duplicate symbols.
Ewww.... Weak symbols?
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-19 1:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-07 16:21 lib.a causing modules not to load James Bottomley
2003-11-07 16:27 ` James Bottomley
2003-11-08 4:34 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-08 8:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-08 15:16 ` James Bottomley
2003-11-17 2:47 ` Rusty Russell
2003-11-18 16:25 ` James Bottomley
2003-11-19 0:06 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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