linux-kernel - Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?

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Message-Id: <20080201030329.9b760777.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Fri, 1 Feb 2008 03:03:29 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:47:18 +0100 Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:

> James said in a related posting that the Section mismatch
> warnings were getting out of control.

eh.  They're easy - the build system tells you about them!

> The list is here:

Question is: why do people keep adding new ones when they are so easy to
detect and fix?

Asnwer: because neither they nor their patch integrators are doing adequate
compilation testing.

> I will look at drivers/isdn as next step.

Thanks.
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