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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: 2.5.7-pre2 -- kernel.o(.data+0x300): undefined reference


On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > +/* "Conditional" syscalls */
> > +
> > +asmlinkage long sys_nfsservctl(void) __attribute__ ((weak, alias ("sys_ni_syscall")));
> > +asmlinkage long sys_quotactl(void) __attribute__ ((weak, alias ("sys_ni_syscall")));
> > +
>
> This is what Linus threw out before - when David wanted to use it to remove
> all the intermodule crap.
>
> It doesn't work with some architecture binutils

Erm... In this case we are within statatically linked image. In which
situations it doesn't work? AFAICS it's as straightforward use of weak
aliases as it gets...

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