...
> What the gnu linker will do is merge multiple "identical" .bss symbols
> together, and will merge them with one .data symbol. 
> 
> So 100 files can say "struct foo bar" and you'll get exactly one struct
> foo bar in the output binary.

	Aah. OK. GNU ld is being clever, and kernel source programmers
have definately made use of it. Bummer.


> It's kinda like saying "extern struct foo bar" everywhere but without
> having to remember to say "struct foo bar" explicitly in one file.
> 
> Does that help?

	No, but it does explain what's happening ;-)



> I'm not sure how to get Metrowerks to do this... Are there
> linker options?

	I will look, but I doubt there is anything to ignore multiple
global symbol declarations.


> You probably also want to define _LKM so none of the opt_foo.h files get
> included.

	That is helpful. At the moment, I was faking those includes
with empty files of the appropriate name.


	Thanks Bill.

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