Re: How to link a .o with all modules

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Sun May 04 2008 - 19:38:33 EST


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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