Re: Why is DVB stuff compiling?

[Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>]

Michael Krufky wrote:

> Cyber Dog wrote:
>
>> #
>> # Multimedia devices
>> #
>> # CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set
>>
>> #
>> # Digital Video Broadcasting Devices
>> #
>> # CONFIG_DVB is not set
>>
>> Which is what I would expect.  So why are these things compiling into
>> the kernel even if they're not selected? Or am I missing something
>> about the process?  Kernel 2.6.13.3 here.  Thanks.
>
> If you go look, you will notice that all of those built-in.o are zero 
> bytes large.  We've already fixed this in kernel 2.6.14 by preventing 
> the build of these empty units with the following patch (you can 
> safely apply it to 2.6.13.y):


I forgot to mention... You CAN apply the patch in my previous message if 
it bothers you enough, but it won't have any real affect on your kernel, 
as those built-in.o are all empty anyway.

>
> Don't build empty built-in.o when DVB/V4L is not configured.
> Thanks to Sam Ravnborg and Keith Owens.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org 
> <mailto:js@linuxtv.org>>

...and I hate it when Thunderbird does stuff like this when I cut&paste 
email addresses :-(

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Michael Krufky