Various files under lib/ are linked into a .a so they only get linked if

needed.  But many of these functions are also EXPORT_SYMBOL()ed.
This doesn't really make sense: if it's exported it really needs to be

present.  Certain configurations can hit this (lguest uses kasprintf,

and can be a module).
We could do something hacky and try to figure out if any modules need

the symbols, which screws modules built later, but is no worse than a

CONFIG_-based solution.
Or to we just move all the exported functions out of the .a?
Cheers,

Rusty.
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I am all for killing lib-y altogether. But do not want to sacrify

kernel bloat for this.

hch suggested a bit of Kconfig tricekery and that seems

like an OK plan to me.

But I'm not in a position to do the detective work at the moment -

feed up with oter stuff for now.
	Sam

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