linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] genksyms: properly consider EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,

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Date:	Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:40 +0000
From:	"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	<sam@...nborg.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genksyms: properly consider
	 EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL{,_GPL}()

>>> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> 23.11.09 03:40 >>>
>On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:52:51 +0000 "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@...ell.com> wrote:
>
>> Despite being unused these should also get a CRC calculated.
>
>why?

Primarily I view this as a consistency thing. But I also think this is one of
the reasons why __crc_* need to be weak (which I think should be
avoided, and hence we should have the goal to eliminate this so that
failure to calculate a proper CRC for a symbol causes the build to fail).

Jan

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