On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 02:21:07PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 05/10/2014 10:02 PM, George Spelvin wrote: > > I had to ask on the mailing list, so save developers the bother of > > answering the question again. (Wanna-be kernel developers might also > > be helped, but who cares about them?) > > > > Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > As with most documentation patches, this is also an exercise in eliciting > > corrections by proposing a wrong answer which will be jumped on. > > Hi Michal, > > Any comments on this patch? > > Thanks. > > > > > Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- > > 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt > > index d567a7cc55..f6cc266163 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt > > @@ -237,10 +237,29 @@ more details, with real examples. > > be included in a library, lib.a. > > All objects listed with lib-y are combined in a single > > library for that directory. > > + > > + The entire kernel is then linked against these libraries, > > + so the linker will include the code in the final kernel only > > + if it is referenced somewhere. Thus, lib-* goals may be > > + designed with false positives. > > + > > Objects that are listed in obj-y and additionally listed in > > lib-y will not be included in the library, since they will > > be accessible anyway. > > - For consistency, objects listed in lib-m will be included in lib.a. > > + > > + For consistency, objects listed in lib-m will be included > > + in lib.a, but this will probably not do what you want. So maybe we should catch this and error out? Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
