linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: reenable section mismatch analysis

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Date:	Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:44:14 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...gutronix.de, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: reenable section mismatch analysis

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:41:00 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:47:20 +0100
> Uwe Kleine-K__nig  <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > This was disabled in commit
> > 
> > 	e5f95c8 (kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces found)
> > 
> > because there were too many warnings.  Now we're down to a reasonable
> > number again, so we start scaring people with the details.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K__nig <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  lib/Kconfig.debug |    4 ----
> >  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > index 2b97418..0f77ed1 100644
> > --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > @@ -102,11 +102,7 @@ config HEADERS_CHECK
> >  
> >  config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
> >  	bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
> > -	depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN)
> >  	default y
> > -	# This option is on purpose disabled for now.
> > -	# It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
> > -	# of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build)
> >  	help
> >  	  The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal
> >  	  references from one section to another section.
> 
> eaaaargh!  650 lines of crap added to my i386 allmodconfig build output.

Each message is a bit longish, yes.

> I'll be locally opting out of this one, thanks.
> --


---
~Randy
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