linux-kernel - Re: Detecting section mismatches in vmlinux

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Message-ID: <20070224200756.GA9417@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:07:56 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Detecting section mismatches in vmlinux

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:53:15AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> 
> This is a dirty hack to check all built-in.o just after linking
> vmlinux.  But this can not detect mismatches in libs.a files, and
> modpost fails with "... is truncated" message on empty built-in.o
> files.
> 
> Maybe checking at each $(LD) invocation should detect all mismatches,
> but I'm not familer with kbuild to do it by myself.  Could someone
> make perfect solution?

I would prefer to find out why it fails when running the check
on full vmlinux.
Your suggestion is like papering over the real bug - and only
if something prevent us from detecting this in full
vmlinux should we do it for each LD invocation.

	Sam
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