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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.5.7-pre2 -- kernel.o(.data+0x300): undefined reference
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 05:39:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > +/* "Conditional" syscalls */
> > +
> > +asmlinkage long sys_nfsservctl(void) __attribute__ ((weak, alias ("sys_ni_syscall")));
> > +asmlinkage long sys_quotactl(void) __attribute__ ((weak, alias ("sys_ni_syscall")));
> > +
> 
> This is what Linus threw out before - when David wanted to use it to remove
> all the intermodule crap.
> 
> It doesn't work with some architecture binutils

As of at least 2.11.2 (fairly certain) and 2.12 (definite) this should
work on every architecture...

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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