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Message-ID: <47A34C47.9040306@garzik.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:43:51 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
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?
Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.
Another way to look at it... All of a sudden, different from 2.6.24,
kernel 2.6.25-git build spews so many warnings that I need to disable
section mismatch checking completely, because there is so much noise
that __normal build messages scroll off the screen__.
Jeff
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