Re: 2.5.51 CRC32 undefined

[=?unknown-8bit?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel]

On Fri, 7 March 2003 09:27:07 -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that crc32.o isn't actually linked into the kernel,
> > because no symbols from it are referenced when the linker is asked to
> > pull in lib/lib.a
> > 
> > Set CONFIG_CRC32=m. We probably shouldn't allow it to be set to 'Y' in
> > the first place., given the above.
> 
> I think it'd be much nicer to just make it work, which can easily be done 
> by moving the EXPORT_SYMBOL() to kernel/ksyms.c. Or, just move the entire 
> file into kernel/ (which unfortunately isn't a very natural place for it. 
> The real problem is that we need a lib/dont_drop_unreferenced/)

Is it just me, or does lib/lib._a_ not make too much sense? It is nice
to be speaking about the kernel library, but what are the benefits of
it being a .a instead of a .o?

Jörn

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