On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jonathan. > >> The section mismatch warning can be easy to miss during the kernel build >> process. Allow it to be marked as fatal to be easily caught and prevent >> bugs from slipping in. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Kliegman <kliegs@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Another way to make them much more visible would be to make > the warnings always be verbose. I'd like to keep the option for a hard fail if a mismatch is detected. This way automated build systems will detect the failed build and can reject a chan > In other words drop support for the "-S" options used below: >> $(if $(CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH),,-S) > > Previously the dev* stuff caused a lot of warnings, but > since we have HOTPLUG always enabled this is a non-issue. > So I think that this is a good time to enable the verboce > warnings. I can submit a second patch for this if you'd like, but I'm not familiar with all the previous decisions in this area. If I understand correctly we'll still need the config option as it also changes compiler flags for inlining. > > Sam -- 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
