Sam Ravnborg napsal(a): > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Michal Marek wrote: >> Sam Ravnborg napsal(a): >>>> I would prefer to see (logically) the same section mismatch not be >>>> reported multiple times, even though they are in different binary >>>> files. This would reduce the noise level quite a bit IMO. >>> That would be nice but is not trivially doable. >>> We need to discover when there is a section mismatch >>> resulting from for example a function in kernel/* >>> calling a function in arch/$ARCH/kernel so we >>> need to execute the check on multiple levels >>> i order to catch the bugs as early as possible. >>> >>> The easy 'fix' would be to execute the check only >>> on vmlinux.o (default behaviour) but the added >>> checks with the option enabled allows us to >>> be much more precise in reporting where >>> the section mismatch originate from. >> But we could remember the (caller,callee) pairs and only emit the first >> warning. Or am I missing something? > > The warnings comes from individual calls to mdpost. Ah, that was the piece I was missing :). Thanks, Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
