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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
randy.dunlap@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BLK_DEV_MD with CONFIG_NET
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:15:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070322111531.GT752@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703212330.24502.arnd@arndb.de>
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:30:24PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2007 13:02:46 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > Anything which is every exported to modules, which ought to
> > > be the situation in this case, should be obj-y not lib-y
> > > right?
> >
> > That is also my understanding of lib-y - I should update makefiles.txt
> > to reflect this..
>
> Strictly speaking, it could well be obj-m instead of obj-y if it
> is _only_ used by modules. OTOH, it makes the Makefile a lot simpler
> to not optimize for this case.
No, it is only used by modules only if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=m and CONFIG_NET=n...
And except for some legacy drivers, there shouldn't be any module-only
code in the kernel.
The solution is either obj-y or obj-$(CONFIG_CSUM_PARIAL).
> Arnd
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-22 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-21 3:05 Randy Dunlap
2007-03-21 3:26 ` David Miller
2007-03-21 12:02 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-03-21 22:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-03-22 11:15 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-03-21 22:59 ` Randy Dunlap
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