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In message <199510082333.QAA07452@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry Lambert
    writes:

>This is a kernel linking issue.  If the kernel is supposedly exporting
>these services, then they must exist regardless of whetheror not they
>are used.

>The X11 code gets around this by causing references in a function code
>body for which the function itself is never called, but for which the
>object module being included is mandatory.

Ok, I like this variant. Who is our LKM commiter(s) to address this
discussion?


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