Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:42:57 -0800
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: bunk@fs.tum.de, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
       irda-users@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.4 patch] fix via-ircc.c .text.exit error
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:02:42PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
>    Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 22:01:26 +0100
> 
>    On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:28:36AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
>    > 	Thanks you Adrian. Yes, I must confess that I never test
>    > non-modular build (because it doesn't work).
>    
>    Are you saying it might compile statically, but it won't work?
>    
> It won't link because many IRDA drivers erroneously don't
> mark their module_{init,exit}() routines static, thus
> symbols conflict.
> 
> I'm fixing that now.

	I was talking with Adrian about 2.4.X where things are quite
different with respect to driver initialisation.

	Jean
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