Re: [PATCH] lib: find_last_bit.o needed by a module only, move it from lib to obj

Benny Halevy
2009-04-26T14:14:26Z

On Apr. 26, 2009, 16:14 +0300, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> 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 <iisaman@citi.umich.edu>
>>>
>>> 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 <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>>
>> 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..
>

Why isn't it a standalone module?

Benny