netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/12] benet: net_object i/f functions, Makefile

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Message-ID: <20080619062701.46a98ab1@mailhost.serverengines.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:27:01 -0700
From:	"Subbu Seetharaman" <subbus@...verengines.com>
To:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, sathyap@...verengines.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/12] benet: net_object i/f functions, Makefile

We could not get KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS to work.
This  is what we did :

beclib's Module.symvers has entries like this :

0x00000000      be_eq_destroy   /home/subbu/kod39-sperla/drivers/message/beclib/beclib  EXPORT_SYMBOL 

benet uses exports from beclib and we have the following line in benet's Makefile: 
KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS = $(src)/../../message/beclib/Module.symvers 

When we build benet we still get warnings like this
for symbols defined and exported from beclib :
WARNING: "be_eq_destroy" [/home/subbu/kod39-sperla/drivers/net/benet/benet.ko] undefined! 

Can you see what's wrong? 

Thanks.

Subbu

----- Original Message -----
From: Sam Ravnborg [mailto:sam@...nborg.org]
To: Subbu Seetharaman [mailto:subbus@...verengines.com]
Cc: jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Sent: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:41:24 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/12] benet: net_object i/f functions, Makefile

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:20:41AM -0700, Subbu Seetharaman wrote:
> Sam,
> 
> We could not find any good way to eliminate the unsresolved
> symbol warnings with the message code separated as
> a module.
There should not be any when building in-kernel.

If you build the two modules as external modules you need
to use a few tricks to get access to the symbol.
See Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt - look
for KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS

> Also, is there a way to prevent
> configuration of "y" for benet and "m" for beclib ?
IIRC a similar case is already described in 
Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

But the simple solution is to let beclib be invisible
like this:

config BECLIB
	tristate

config BENET
	tristate "BE Module"
	select BECLIB
	depends on ...

Then BECLIB will have same value as BENET.
[Example only - use more appropriate names].

> What is the advantage of using benet-y instead
> of benet-objs ?

Lets say you have an optionla module that may
be selected in kconfig. Then you would do:

benet-y := benet-main.o benet-foo.o benet-bar.o ...
benet-$(OPTIONAL_FEATURE) += optional.o

>  I do not see net driver makefile
> using *-y. 
It is only recently I have started asking people to use -y for new stuff.
And no one has done any big effort to convert existing -objs users to -y
because that would mostly be code chrunch for little gain.

	Sam

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