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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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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