Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?

[Harvey Harrison]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 03:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:47:18 +0100 Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Because if there already exists more than a handful peoples' eyes glaze
over and ignore "just one more warning"

Unless they break the build, or if there currently are 0 and they make
it non-zero, people seem not to care....sad.  Probably the same for
sparse/checkpatch, "there's plenty already, I can't be bothered to look"

Subject to someone _making_ it an issue, can't see it changing.

Harvey

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