Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git4 build warnings

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 07:49:46PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote:
> On Saturday 01 December 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:19:49PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just built 2.6.24-rc3-git4 and got the following two warnings.
> > >
> > >   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> > >   KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms1.S
> > >   AS      .tmp_kallsyms1.o
> > >   LD      .tmp_vmlinux2
> > >   KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.S
> > >   AS      .tmp_kallsyms2.o
> > >   LD      vmlinux.o
> > >   MODPOST vmlinux.o
> > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x90b6): Section mismatch: reference to
> > > .init.text:cache_remove_shared_cpu_map (between 'free_cache_attributes'
> > > and 'show_level')
> > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x143bd): Section mismatch: reference to
> > > .exit.text:cpufreq_stats_free_table (between 'cpufreq_stat_cpu_callback'
> > > and 'cpufreq_stats_init')
> > >...
> >
> > You seem to be using gcc 3.3 or 3.4.
> 
> Yes, it's 3.3.6. README in the top-level kernel source directory says "Make 
> sure you have at least gcc 3.2 available", so that should be OK, shouldn't 
> it?
>...

Yes, that's OK and 3.3.6 is a supported compiler for the kernel.

> Chris

cu
Adrian

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