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SubjectRe: Are Section mismatches out of control?
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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