Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.51 CRC32 undefined | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | 07 Mar 2003 15:59:01 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 15:49, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I don't want to have configs like this. I personally refuse to load > modules into my kernel, and as such a subsystem that only works as a > module is _evil_.
It works built-in and would continue to do so with this patch applied.
It's built into your kernel _automatically_ if anything built-in requires it. That's done by the makefiles. Likewise, it's built as a module automatically if anything modular in your tree requires it.
The config option is _only_ relevant if you are explicitly adding crc32 in the knowledge that you're going to build an _external_ module which requires it.
However, setting the config option to 'Y' when you have only _modular_ stuff which requires it is broken because it doesn't actually get pulled in from lib/lib.a, because nothing references it.
-- dwmw2
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