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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: fix so modpost can now check any .o file
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:56:31 +1100
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On Monday 21 January 2008 07:08:56 Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> It is very convinient to say:
> scripts/mod/modpost mm/built-in.o
>
> to check if any section mismatch errors occured
> in mm/ (as an example).

Hi Sam,

In an ideal world, wouldn't it be better to split out section analysis into a 
different helper program?

Cheers,
Rusty.