On 08/16/2009 11:34 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
Can't you get the best of both worlds? Do the separation but artificially glue them together again as a module at link time. This solves the current distro problem and you can remove the linker hack as soon as the distros get their act together. James --- diff --git a/drivers/ata/Makefile b/drivers/ata/Makefile index 9f7b500..10101d7 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/Makefile +++ b/drivers/ata/Makefile @@ -1,8 +1,10 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ATA) += libata.o -obj-$(CONFIG_SATA_AHCI) += libahci.o ahci.o -obj-$(CONFIG_SATA_ACARD_AHCI) += libahci.o acard-ahci.o +obj-$(CONFIG_SATA_AHCI) += ahci_mod.o +obj-ahci_mod-y += libahci.o ahci.o +obj-ahci_mod-$(CONFIG_SATA_ACARD_AHCI) += acard-ahci.o +obj-ahci_mod-$(CONFIG_SATA_MV_AHCI) += mv-ahci.o
Yeah, that could definitely be an option... Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html