Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 11:22 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx 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." -- 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
