linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: fix section mismatch warnings in mtrr

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Date:	Sat, 26 May 2007 18:02:08 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Indan Zupancic" <indan@....nu>
Cc:	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>,
	"Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"Andrey Borzenkov" <arvidjaar@...l.ru>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Bernhard Walle" <bwalle@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: fix section mismatch warnings in mtrr

On Saturday 26 May 2007 14:07:24 Indan Zupancic wrote:

> 
> Did the patches reach 2.6.22-rc3 yet?

No.

> 
> If they did, then the following warnings might need fixing:

There is already one patch queued for it. But actually in my experience I cannot
remember a single real bug showed by these warnings. All were false positives
and there are always more of them.

Maybe it would be best to disable these warnings again; not much good 
seems to come from them.

-Andi

> WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x84bc): Section mismatch: reference to
>.init.text:amd_init_mtrr (between 'mtrr_bp_init' and 'mtrr_attrib_to_str')
>WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x84c1): Section mismatch: reference to
>.init.text:cyrix_init_mtrr (between 'mtrr_bp_init' and 'mtrr_attrib_to_str')
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