From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754168AbZDZNOi (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:14:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751058AbZDZNO2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:14:28 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:36203 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750900AbZDZNO2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:14:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:14:22 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Rusty Russell Cc: Benny Halevy , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fred Isaman , Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: find_last_bit.o needed by a module only, move it from lib to obj Message-ID: <20090426131422.GA19701@infradead.org> References: <1240494032-9674-1-git-send-email-bhalevy@panasas.com> <200904262205.20608.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200904262205.20608.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:05:19PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:10:32 pm Benny Halevy wrote: > > From: Fred Isaman > > > > Currently, although find_last_bit is EXPORTed, it is statically linked with > > the lernel and is referenced only under CONFIG_SMP. > > Acked-by: Rusty Russell > > We know that any EXPORT_SYMBOL in lib-y is dubious, at least, but we're > lazy (ISTR it would gut lib-y to exclude them all). The whole of lib-y is dangerous and we should just kill it..