From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Keith Ownes <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Subject: Re: kbuild - status on section mismatch warnings
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:39:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060305223939.GA16148@mars.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060305220401.GA25816@home.fluff.org>
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:04:01PM +0000, Ben Dooks wrote:
>
> > And this is unfortunate since we cannot do a full check, but we do a
> > better job than before and warn for many of the trivial cases.
> > Judging the amount of warnings already generated this is worth checking.
>
> I think the best way to be with an extension to sparse to
> check calls from non-init marked code do not to go to items
> marked init unless forced to.
Should be doable yes. Maybe even with current infrastructure?
The advantage being that the check in modpost is run each time you build
your modules so much harder to overlook.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-05 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-05 19:30 kbuild - status on section mismatch warnings Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-05 20:06 ` Al Viro
2006-03-05 21:58 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-05 22:04 ` Ben Dooks
2006-03-05 22:39 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2006-03-05 23:52 ` Al Viro
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