Re: PCI patch for 2.3.18

Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:15:30 +0200


Hi,

> o Don't link syscall.o and setup.o on the PC, they aren't used anyway.
>
> This is an unneeded change I really think. drivers/pci/pci.a is an
> archive, and the symbols+code won't be pulled into the kernel if they
> are unreferenced.

Yes, I know that, but I want to be sure it won't be pulled on a i386
accidentally. Also, it saves a few seconds from the compilation time, but
it probably doesn't matter.

Have a nice fortnight

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