Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 May 2007 19:57:36 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: (hacky) [PATCH] silence MODPOST section mismatch warnings |
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:54:31PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:54:27PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:51:47PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> > > > Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:34:18 -0700 > > > > > > > MODPOST seems to be spewing bogus warnings. It's not clear how best > > > > to fix it so perhaps we should silence it for now? > > > > > > Most of them are legitimate, the only one that needs sorting > > > is the mm/slab.c case and people are working on that. > > > > > > The rest are useful and I've been working to fix things up > > > on sparc64 and the networking, and in fact I'm very happy > > > about these notifications. > > > > > > Please don't apply a sledgehammer to this issue, thanks. > > > > I've not had one accurate one on ARM yet. > > To be able to test my modpost changes I am building arm for all configs. > I can see a number of legitime warnings for the ARM code. > Those I have investigated has all been of the case where functions > are used only during init but not marked init. > So no real bugs just potential savings and consistency. > Shall I try to fix them up and drop you a path?
It'll probably be worth doing this after -rc1 - there's still some stuff in flux at the moment.
However, note that my comments above were based on a mis-understanding of the warnings.
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