From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
To: dedekind1@gmail.com
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: move KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:01:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D99EB3E.1020202@grupopie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1301931464.2760.101.camel@localhost>
Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 11:22 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> [...]
>> When was the last time we actually saw such a bug report? I'm suspecting that
>> all the affected people just set the variable and get on with their lives. So
>> we should either just make it automatic if that's what people are going to do,
>> or we rip the entire "EXTRA_PASS' stuff out forcibly and *make* people fix the
>> actual underlying issue that causes the extra pass to be needed...
>
> I do not know when this bug was last seen, but I'd not remove this
> "extra pass" work around so far. WRT automatic fix-up - I do not have
> strong opinion here, but Paulo Marques pointed in another thread that
> due to various alignment issues the bug is tricky and may come back. So
> probably removing working code is not very wise. Thus, it seems the way
> I proposed in this patch is a good balance.
>
> But anyway, if Michal Marek requests to change this, I'll do this (he is
> the Maintainer).
Doing a search on a mail archive for "Inconsistent kallsyms data"
results in a dozen or so threads, and the last one seems to be on alpha
in 2008.
Not very frequent for certain, but not in the "never been seen" category
either.
--
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
"All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-04 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-04 10:40 [PATCH 1/2] Kconfig: improve KALLSYMS_ALL documentation Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-04 10:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: move KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS from Kconfig to Makefile Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-04 12:17 ` Michal Marek
2011-04-04 12:48 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-04 12:45 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-04-04 12:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-04 15:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-04-04 15:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-04 16:01 ` Paulo Marques [this message]
2011-04-04 15:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-04-04 16:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] Kconfig: improve KALLSYMS_ALL documentation Randy Dunlap
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