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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 15:23:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.6 PCMCIA NET modular build breakage
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Russell King wrote:

> Seems like its something that appeared between 2.4.5 and 2.4.6.  Anyone
> know the correct fix, other than reversing the change?

It should be fine.

> Since all net cards are modules, object list for pcmcia_net.o is empty and
> kernel can't be linked.

Could you reproduce this? (I don't think you can)

Rules.make takes care of an empty $(obj-y) and builds an empty $(O_TARGET) 
file in this case, so linking this in should work fine.

--Kai

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