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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
	Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
	linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: fw: arc: add __weak to prom_meminit and prom_free_prom_memory
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 18:16:51 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.2004051813150.4156324@eddie.linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200405163052.18942-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>

On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> As far as I understood, prom_meminit() in arch/mips/fw/arc/memory.c
> is overridden by the one in arch/mips/sgi-ip32/ip32-memory.c if
> CONFIG_SGI_IP32 is enabled.
> 
> The use of EXPORT_SYMBOL in static libraries potentially causes a
> problem for the llvm linker [1]. So, I want to forcibly link lib-y
> objects to vmlinux when CONFIG_MODULES=y.

 It looks to me like a bug in the linker in the handling of the EXTERN 
command.  Why not fix the linker instead?

  Maciej

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-05 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-05 16:30 [PATCH] MIPS: fw: arc: add __weak to prom_meminit and prom_free_prom_memory Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-05 17:16 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2020-04-06  1:45   ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-06 11:54     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-06 18:02       ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-04-07 16:48         ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2020-04-06 11:03 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-04-07 16:02   ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-06 18:16 ` Nick Desaulniers

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