Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does

Horst von Brand (brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
Fri, 01 Feb 2002 11:07:42 +0100


"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:

[...]

> However this isn't a driver, the crc library stuff is more akin to
> "strlen()". Are you suggesting to provide a CONFIG_STRINGOPS=n
> too? I wish you luck building that kernel :-)

libc.a was invented precisely to handle such stuff automatically when
linking... if it doesn't work, it should be fixed. I.e., making .a --> .o
is a step in the wrong direction IMVHO.

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Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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