linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.25 section mismatches

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Message-ID: <20080417174440.GA14864@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:44:40 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Cc:	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>,
	rufus-azrael@...ericable.fr
Subject: Re: 2.6.25 section mismatches

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:01:49AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Bart Van Assche (bart.vanassche@...il.com) wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Bart Van Assche
> > <bart.vanassche@...il.com> wrote:
> > > Apparently there is a significant number of section mismatches in the
> > >  2.6.25 kernel. These were already reported against 2.6.25-rc1 and are
> > >  still present in the final 2.6.25 release. These section mismatches
> > >  show up at least on the i386 and x86_64 architectures. Maybe it's a
> > >  good idea before a patch is merged not only to check whether the patch
> > >  applies cleanly but also to check whether it doesn't create any new
> > >  section mismatches ?
> > >
> > >  See also http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9974.
> > 
> > Who should look into this ?
> 
> Sam, any of these look familiar (or put another way...are there still
> outstanding section mismatch fixes in -mm)?

>From a quick scan I will say that at least half of these have pending fixes in -mm.
I'm looking forward to see where we are after Andrew's first merge.

	Sam
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