Re: __init dependencies

[Randy.Dunlap]

Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I guess it's about time for a tool to autodetect __init dependencies?
> >
> >
> >
> > `make buildcheck' does this.  Looks like nobody is using it.
>
>
> I have asked that one of the forever-building machines here (OSDL)
> do that.
> I'll get back to that request....

John Cherry has been running 'make buildcheck' regularly,
but apparently nobody has been looking.

Latest (2.6.9-rc4) is here:
http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/2.6/linux-2.6.9-rc4.results/2.6.9-rc4.reference_init26.bzImage.txt

My experience with output of buildcheck is that it's verbose and has
lots of false positives.  (Yes, I have used it and generated patches
from it.)  First thing I do is delete all lines that match
"data.*init" or "data.*exit".  These are (usually -- famous word) OK.
Then someone can look at the entries that really need to be checked,
such as this list, derived from the larger list above:

http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/doc/2.6.9-rc4.reference_init26.bzImage.txt

I'll look over it in the next few days.

--
~Randy
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