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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	davej@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: __init dependencies
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:04:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <416B57DE.4070605@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416ADC63.6010709@osdl.org>

Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess it's about time for a tool to autodetect __init dependencies?
>>
>>
>>
>> `make buildcheck' does this.  Looks like nobody is using it.
> 
> 
> I have asked that one of the forever-building machines here (OSDL)
> do that.
> I'll get back to that request....

John Cherry has been running 'make buildcheck' regularly,
but apparently nobody has been looking.

Latest (2.6.9-rc4) is here:
http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/2.6/linux-2.6.9-rc4.results/2.6.9-rc4.reference_init26.bzImage.txt

My experience with output of buildcheck is that it's verbose and has
lots of false positives.  (Yes, I have used it and generated patches
from it.)  First thing I do is delete all lines that match
"data.*init" or "data.*exit".  These are (usually -- famous word) OK.
Then someone can look at the entries that really need to be checked,
such as this list, derived from the larger list above:

http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/doc/2.6.9-rc4.reference_init26.bzImage.txt

I'll look over it in the next few days.

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-12  4:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-10 22:57 [PATCH] find_isa_irq_pin can't be __init Dave Jones
2004-10-11 11:33 ` __init dependencies (was: Re: [PATCH] find_isa_irq_pin can't be )__init Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-11 19:12   ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-11 19:16     ` Dave Jones
2004-10-11 19:17     ` __init dependencies Randy.Dunlap
2004-10-12  4:04       ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-10-12  4:19         ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-12  6:06         ` Keith Owens
2004-10-20 16:08           ` [PATCH] __init dependencies: ignore __param Randy.Dunlap

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