Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751819AbWIGPUK (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:20:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751478AbWIGPUK (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:20:10 -0400 Received: from mailhub.sw.ru ([195.214.233.200]:22025 "EHLO relay.sw.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751819AbWIGPUI (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:20:08 -0400 Message-ID: <45003985.7060304@sw.ru> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:23:49 +0400 From: Kirill Korotaev User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olaf Hering CC: Adrian Bunk , Kirill Korotaev , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrey Mirkin , devel@openvz.org, mikpe@it.uu.se, sam@ravnborg.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fail kernel compilation in case of unresolved symbols (v2) References: <44FFEE5D.2050905@openvz.org> <20060907110513.GA22319@aepfle.de> <20060907111329.GI25473@stusta.de> <20060907122607.GA22882@aepfle.de> In-Reply-To: <20060907122607.GA22882@aepfle.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1137 Lines: 29 Olaf Hering wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >>If any module shipped with the kernel has in any configuration >>unresolved symbols that's a bug that should be reported, not ignored. > > > Yes, but on request when building the package. Not per default. > I probably missed the reason why this is now suddenly a problem. It is not that sudden at all. I experienced this problem many times so far and working with a build system came to the idea of failing builds when there are unresolved symbols. I'm pretty sure that having this patch in mainstream will make unresolved symbols a rare problem as many of them will be fixed soon. So I'm pretty agree with Adrian that modules with unresolved symbols is a bug and it MUST be fixed. I would be very much interested to hear Andrew opinion on this as he probably makes kernels even more often than any of us :) Thanks, Kirill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/