Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 20:33:12 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
       xfs@oss.sgi.com, Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>,
       Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] sort: Introduce generic list_sort function
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> lib-y doesn't work together with EXPORT_SYMBOL, having the export
> outside would also always pull it in.  These days the whole lib-y mess
> doesn't make sense anymore - if we really need an optional library
> symbol we can just pull it in through a Kconfig variable.

It works for non modular kernels with CONFIG_MODULES turned off.

See also the other patch I posted yesterday to fix this for 
lib/*

-Andi


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