Re: Link breakage on all architectures which implement their own show_mem

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On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 11:41 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
>     oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from meminfo on oom kill
> 
> Is the cause.  What it does is introduce a new __show_mem() which is
> required by files in mm/, so the object containing it: show_mem.o gets
> pulled in all the time in the link and that gives every architecture
> that implements their own show_mem() a link failure because of the
> double definition.  Library linking works at the file level, not at
> the
> function level.  To work, you have to put these functions in separate 

Can't this be fixed by making show_mem() weak ? Or am I missing
something ?

Cheers,
Ben.


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