On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I saw two mm_init functions in the kernel source code. > 1) init/main.c (http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.38/init/main.c#L530) > 2) kernel/fork.c (http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.38/kernel/fork.c#L482) > > Are the above functions go inside a single binary? How this doesn't > produce a redefinition error? > > Thanks, > Vikram Both of these define mm_init as static so they aren't visible outside the source file that has them. Plus they don't use the EXPORT_SYMBOL macro to indicate that it can be called from elsewhere in the kernel. There is another mm_init function in drivers/block/umem.c as well which is also static. Cheers, Greg _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
