Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:43:51 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Are Section mismatches out of control? |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:47:18 +0100 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> 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
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