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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:02:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adak5lo7gqf.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201864894.23523.117.camel@brick> (Harvey Harrison's message of "Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:21:34 -0800")

 > Subject to someone _making_ it an issue, can't see it changing.

Actually I think that Sam's recent improvements to the section
mismatch detection should make it easy to get at least all of the
driver issues fixed -- the problem in the past was that many warnings
would only show with certain configs or certain compilers (inlining
functions only called once would hide many warnings).

Now I just need to enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH and I'm pretty
certain to see everything (and indeed this found a few warnings in
drivers/infiniband hidden by inlining, which I've queued up a fix for).

So the __cpuinit stuff may be trickier and half false positives etc,
but I'm confident drivers/ will be cleaned up quickly now thanks to Sam.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-01 10:47 Are Section mismatches out of control? Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01 11:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-02-01 11:21   ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-01 13:30     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-01 13:40       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01 21:22         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-01 22:32           ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-02 16:42             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-02 17:40               ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01 17:02     ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-02-01 21:47     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-01 22:10       ` James Bottomley
2008-02-01 22:40       ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-02  0:01         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-01 14:48   ` Johannes Weiner
2008-02-01 15:00   ` James Bottomley
2008-02-01 16:43   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-01 20:17     ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01 20:24       ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-01 22:38         ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-01 11:10 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 21:51   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-02  4:12     ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-01 14:53 ` James Bottomley

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