Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?

[Jeff Garzik]

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.
>
> > 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




--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/