From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@sw.ru>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] fail kernel compilation in case of unresolved symbols
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 17:31:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060905153159.GA13082@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44FD7FED.7000603@sw.ru>
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 05:47:25PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> At stage 2 modpost utility is used to check modules.
> In case of unresolved symbols modpost only prints warning.
>
> IMHO it is a good idea to fail compilation process in case of
> unresolved symbols, since usually such errors are left unnoticed,
> but kernel modules are broken.
The primary reason why we do not fail in this case is that building
external modules often result in unresolved symbols at modpost time.
And there is many legitime uses of external modules that we shall support.
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-05 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-05 13:47 [RFC][PATCH] fail kernel compilation in case of unresolved symbols Kirill Korotaev
2006-09-05 15:31 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2006-09-05 16:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-06 15:05 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-09-06 15:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-09-06 15:05 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-09-06 18:15 ` Sam Ravnborg
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2006-09-05 15:04 Mikael Pettersson
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