Re: [PATCH v1] uml: make CONFIG_STATIC_LINK actually static

[Brendan Higgins]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 4:30 PM James McMechan
<james_mcmechan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Resent for the mailing list since my webmail decided to try to send html...
>
> I agree that at least the UML_NET_VECTOR is not compatible with static linking at the moment,
> but I was running a statically linked UML with PCAP back in December.
> I was having no problems, but I don't remember if I was using PCAP itself...

I was just going off of what Anton and Johannes said in regard to
PCAP; it seems to have deviated from the libpcap library, so I have
been unable to test it:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-um/2019-December/002548.html

Anton, do you have the fix for PCAP out yet?

> I seem to remember a minor patch I did to fix a symbol conflict but nothing of note.
> I have not played around with UML_NET_VECTOR since I run the normal networking.
> And I did not find any config info with a quick googling the vector version so I just ignored it.

Nevertheless, VDE still causes the linker to complain.

Cheers