On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > As far as I understood, prom_meminit() in arch/mips/fw/arc/memory.c > is overridden by the one in arch/mips/sgi-ip32/ip32-memory.c if > CONFIG_SGI_IP32 is enabled. > > The use of EXPORT_SYMBOL in static libraries potentially causes a > problem for the llvm linker [1]. So, I want to forcibly link lib-y > objects to vmlinux when CONFIG_MODULES=y. It looks to me like a bug in the linker in the handling of the EXTERN command. Why not fix the linker instead? Maciej