How to link a .o with all modules

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Mon May 5 09:38:18 EST 2008


H. Peter Anvin writes:

> Why is having them as an EXPORT_SYMBOL() counterproductive?  It sounds 
> like *exactly* what you need -- and then having the kernel provide the 
> same code to modules, instead of replication...?

It means we would go through a trampoline just to call little things
like __ucmpdi2, which seems a bit unnecessary.

Paul.



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