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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does 
In-Reply-To: Message from "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> 
   of "Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:45:47 PST." <20020131.154547.74749379.davem@redhat.com> 
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 11:07:42 +0100
From: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:

[...]

> However this isn't a driver, the crc library stuff is more akin to
> "strlen()".  Are you suggesting to provide a CONFIG_STRINGOPS=n
> too?  I wish you luck building that kernel :-)

libc.a was invented precisely to handle such stuff automatically when
linking... if it doesn't work, it should be fixed. I.e., making .a --> .o
is a step in the wrong direction IMVHO.
-- 
Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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