Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Sep 2006 18:01:04 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] fail kernel compilation in case of unresolved symbols |
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:31:59PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:47:25PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > > At stage 2 modpost utility is used to check modules. > > In case of unresolved symbols modpost only prints warning. > > > > IMHO it is a good idea to fail compilation process in case of > > unresolved symbols, since usually such errors are left unnoticed, > > but kernel modules are broken. > > The primary reason why we do not fail in this case is that building > external modules often result in unresolved symbols at modpost time. > > And there is many legitime uses of external modules that we shall support.
Is there a way we can get this only for building the kernel itself? In this case an unresolved symbol is a real bug that should cause an abort of the compilation.
I'm often doing compile tests for the kernel, and the current warnings are too easy to miss.
> Sam
cu Adrian
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