Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:01:02 +0100 | From | Paulo Marques <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: move KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile |
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Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 11:22 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >> [...] >> When was the last time we actually saw such a bug report? I'm suspecting that >> all the affected people just set the variable and get on with their lives. So >> we should either just make it automatic if that's what people are going to do, >> or we rip the entire "EXTRA_PASS' stuff out forcibly and *make* people fix the >> actual underlying issue that causes the extra pass to be needed... > > I do not know when this bug was last seen, but I'd not remove this > "extra pass" work around so far. WRT automatic fix-up - I do not have > strong opinion here, but Paulo Marques pointed in another thread that > due to various alignment issues the bug is tricky and may come back. So > probably removing working code is not very wise. Thus, it seems the way > I proposed in this patch is a good balance. > > But anyway, if Michal Marek requests to change this, I'll do this (he is > the Maintainer).
Doing a search on a mail archive for "Inconsistent kallsyms data" results in a dozen or so threads, and the last one seems to be on alpha in 2008.
Not very frequent for certain, but not in the "never been seen" category either.
-- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
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