linux-kernel - How to prevent an object file from being thrown away?

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Date:	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 08:33:36 -0700
From:	"Kaz Kylheku" <kaz@...gmasystems.com>
To:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: How to prevent an object file from being thrown away?

I have an object file which contains only static objects and functions.
One of them is marked __init, and annotated with a late_initcall().
However, the file, which is added to a lib.a archive, is still
ultimately thrown away by the linker. 

I can solve it with a dummy reference to a symbol in that file from
another module, but is there some "officially blessed" Linux kernel
Makefile trick to make the linker do the
--whole-archive/--no-whole-archive around a particular lib.a?

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