linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] uml: make CONFIG_STATIC

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Date:   Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:25:49 -0800
From:   Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
To:     James McMechan <james_mcmechan@...mail.com>
Cc:     Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        linux-um <linux-um@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davidgow@...gle.com" <davidgow@...gle.com>,
        Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] uml: make CONFIG_STATIC_LINK actually static

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 4:30 PM James McMechan
<james_mcmechan@...mail.com> wrote:
>
> Resent for the mailing list since my webmail decided to try to send html...
>
> I agree that at least the UML_NET_VECTOR is not compatible with static linking at the moment,
> but I was running a statically linked UML with PCAP back in December.
> I was having no problems, but I don't remember if I was using PCAP itself...

I was just going off of what Anton and Johannes said in regard to
PCAP; it seems to have deviated from the libpcap library, so I have
been unable to test it:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-um/2019-December/002548.html

Anton, do you have the fix for PCAP out yet?

> I seem to remember a minor patch I did to fix a symbol conflict but nothing of note.
> I have not played around with UML_NET_VECTOR since I run the normal networking.
> And I did not find any config info with a quick googling the vector version so I just ignored it.

Nevertheless, VDE still causes the linker to complain.

Cheers