Re: [PATCH] LKCD for 2.5.44 (3/8): kerntypes addition

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:44:04AM -0700, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
> This adds kerntypes into the build so that symbols can be
> extracted from a single build object in the kernel.  This
> also modifies the install process (where applicable) to
> copy the Kerntypes file along with the kernel and map.
> 
>  Makefile                   |   15 +++++++++++++--
>  arch/i386/boot/Makefile    |    2 +-
>  arch/i386/boot/install.sh  |   24 +++++++++++++++++-------
>  arch/s390/boot/install.sh  |   24 +++++++++++++++++-------
>  arch/s390x/boot/install.sh |   24 +++++++++++++++++-------
>  init/Makefile              |    5 +++++
>  init/kerntypes.c           |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -Naur linux-2.5.44.orig/Makefile linux-2.5.44.lkcd/Makefile
> --- linux-2.5.44.orig/Makefile	Fri Oct 18 21:01:12 2002
> +++ linux-2.5.44.lkcd/Makefile	Sat Oct 19 12:53:45 2002
> @@ -273,6 +273,17 @@
>  MODLIB	:= $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)/lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE)
>  export MODLIB
>  
> +#
> +# For crash dumps, pull out the Kerntypes copying for now.  We may
> +# still build init/kerntypes.o, but we don't copy it every time.
> +#
> +ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
> +vmlinux-extra += Kerntypes
> +
> +Kerntypes:	init/kerntypes.o
> +	/bin/cp $< $@
> +endif

Why can't you directly link in init/kerntypes.o?