Re: 2.6.25 section mismatches

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:01:49AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Bart Van Assche (bart.vanassche@gmail.com) wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Bart Van Assche
> > <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Apparently there is a significant number of section mismatches in the
> > >  2.6.25 kernel. These were already reported against 2.6.25-rc1 and are
> > >  still present in the final 2.6.25 release. These section mismatches
> > >  show up at least on the i386 and x86_64 architectures. Maybe it's a
> > >  good idea before a patch is merged not only to check whether the patch
> > >  applies cleanly but also to check whether it doesn't create any new
> > >  section mismatches ?
> > >
> > >  See also http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9974.
> > 
> > Who should look into this ?
> 
> Sam, any of these look familiar (or put another way...are there still
> outstanding section mismatch fixes in -mm)?

>From a quick scan I will say that at least half of these have pending fixes in -mm.
I'm looking forward to see where we are after Andrew's first merge.

	Sam