From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261478AbVBRUE1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:04:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261480AbVBRUE1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:04:27 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:47770 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261470AbVBRUDw (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:03:52 -0500 Message-ID: <42164A27.8010402@osdl.org> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:03:51 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Organization: OSDL User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maciej Soltysiak CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6 current BK] Unnecesary code gets compiled in during build? References: <132340039.20050218204824@dns.toxicfilms.tv> In-Reply-To: <132340039.20050218204824@dns.toxicfilms.tv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > Hi, > > I am compiling 2.6.11-rc4-cset > > And I see during the compilation: > LD drivers/media/common/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/dvb/b2c2/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/dvb/cinergyT2/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/dvb/dibusb/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/dvb/frontends/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-budget/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/dvb/ttusb-dec/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/dvb/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/radio/built-in.o > LD drivers/media/video/built-in.o > > Although I know I have not added dvb, nor radio. > How come this shows up? It makes the kbuild system easier ? It's probably fixable (I haven't looked), but I have noticed the same thing that you are seeing. Patches are welcome... if it needs to be fixed. Did you notice how large those built-in.o files are? > I am attaching my .config, it does not have DVB set. -- ~Randy