On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:44:06AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 12:23:24PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > Since commit 69ea912fda74 ("kbuild: remove unneeded link_multi_deps"), > > modules cannot link *.a archives. > > > > I do not see such a usecase in the upstream code, but multiple people > > reported this issue, so it seems to be a desired feature for external > > modules. > > Kernel policy is to not keep around infrastructure not used upstream. > And linking archives in the kernel doesn't really make any sense, so > this shouldn't go in in any form. Yeah, I agree, it's just going to bit-rot and people really shouldn't be doing stuff like this in their kernel modules. If they want to, they need to figure out how to do it themselves :) greg k-h