linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64

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Message-Id: <20071229.001411.210630819.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:14:11 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bunk@...nel.org
Cc:	errandir_news@....eclipse.co.uk, m.kozlowski@...land.pl,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:22:56 +0200

> At least the sunserial_console_match() one is an obvious Oops 
> (EXPORT_SYMBOL of an __init function).
> 
> The comment in the description of
> commit 58d784a5c754cd66ecd4791222162504d3c16c74 the warning was bogus    
> is bullshit.
> 
> I'm not sure whether this might count as a 2.6.24-rc regression or 
> whether 2.6.23 is simply differently but similarly broken (does anyone 
> actually use the Sun console drivers modular?).

You can't do that, the FOO_CONSOLE config options depend upon
FOO=y.

That's why I'm not worried about this issue and it's not critical at
all.
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