On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:58:32AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: > I am trying to make sense of drivers/sgi/char/Makefile in 2.4.4-pre5. > > export-objs := newport.o shmiq.o sgicons.o usema.o > obj-y := newport.o shmiq.o sgicons.o usema.o streamable.o > > obj-$(CONFIG_SGI_SERIAL) += sgiserial.o > obj-$(CONFIG_SGI_DS1286) += ds1286.o > obj-$(CONFIG_SGI_NEWPORT_GFX) += graphics.o rrm.o > > None of newport.o shmiq.o sgicons.o usema.o export any symbols so why > are they defined as export-objs? The only object that does export > symbols is graphics_syms.c and no Makefile refers to that source, it > appears to be dead. > > I recommend removing all export-objs from drivers/sgi/char/Makefile and > deleting drivers/sgi/char/graphics_syms.c. The real fix is one of many patches pending to be merged with Linus ... Ralf
