From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933750AbYDQRoZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:44:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761544AbYDQRoN (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:44:13 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:44692 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753375AbYDQRoL (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:44:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:44:40 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Chris Wright Cc: Bart Van Assche , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg Kroah-Hartman , rufus-azrael@numericable.fr Subject: Re: 2.6.25 section mismatches Message-ID: <20080417174440.GA14864@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20080417170149.GC17220@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080417170149.GC17220@sequoia.sous-sol.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 > > 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