Re: BLK_DEV_MD with CONFIG_NET

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:30:24PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2007 13:02:46 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > Anything which is every exported to modules, which ought to
> > > be the situation in this case, should be obj-y not lib-y
> > > right?
> >
> > That is also my understanding of lib-y - I should update makefiles.txt
> > to reflect this..
> 
> Strictly speaking, it could well be obj-m instead of obj-y if it
> is _only_ used by modules. OTOH, it makes the Makefile a lot simpler
> to not optimize for this case.

No, it is only used by modules only if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=m and CONFIG_NET=n...

And except for some legacy drivers, there shouldn't be any module-only 
code in the kernel.

The solution is either obj-y or obj-$(CONFIG_CSUM_PARIAL).

> 	Arnd

cu
Adrian

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