Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:11:53 -0800
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <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 10:01:26PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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?
> 
> In this case, what about disallowing building it statically in the 
> Config.in?

	I never looked in details at those issues. Some people claim
it works, but personally I always had touble with driver init (double
initialisation). I don't want to disable it if some embedded people
depend on it (stable kernel => stable feature list).
	My "solution" was to totally rework the driver init (and stack
init) in 2.5.X and put ample warning on my web page "use static at
your own risk".

	Jean
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