Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:13:54 +0300 | From | Benny Halevy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lib: find_last_bit.o needed by a module only, move it from lib to obj |
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On Apr. 26, 2009, 16:14 +0300, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:05:19PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: >> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:10:32 pm Benny Halevy wrote: >>> From: Fred Isaman <iisaman@citi.umich.edu> >>> >>> Currently, although find_last_bit is EXPORTed, it is statically linked with >>> the lernel and is referenced only under CONFIG_SMP. >> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> >> >> We know that any EXPORT_SYMBOL in lib-y is dubious, at least, but we're >> lazy (ISTR it would gut lib-y to exclude them all). > > The whole of lib-y is dangerous and we should just kill it.. >
Why isn't it a standalone module?
Benny
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