Re: Duplicate symbols in -ac JFFS2

arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
Thu, 9 Aug 2001 08:43:03 +0100 (BST)


In article <6361.997313081@ocs3.ocs-net> you wrote:
> In 2.4.7-ac9, if both ppp deflate and JFFS2 are built into the kernel,
> there are lots of duplicate symbols.

> drivers/net/ppp_deflate.o(.data+0x0): multiple definition of `deflate_copyright'
> fs/jffs2/jffs2.o(.data+0x20): first defined here
> drivers/net/ppp_deflate.o: In function `deflateInit_':
> drivers/net/ppp_deflate.o(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `deflateInit_'
> ...

> What happened to the idea of puttting the deflate code in its own
> object with exported symbols, instead of duplicating it in each
> directory?

Well the PPP one is different due to RFC-ishness...
The rest could be merged most likely.
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