Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755553AbYBALWV (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:22:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757332AbYBALWN (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:22:13 -0500 Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.214.227]:18957 "EHLO hu-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756043AbYBALWM (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:22:12 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=pSXn2t95U3wquS6DY5Jnbi5GWX3q3F8PYuM4MDo+OjIUamMLKsNKqGNOeJBAF/BhtCULMg0kampmGDfcA30KKpCAEN2Mx8xxjLZ30GYEYYwePcu0jZXPsPPLfSW+YkukVcPvBMLEmA7T53v5bqgtqY4deR6cu/Kcx2aNDGaAjQ4= Subject: Re: Are Section mismatches out of control? From: Harvey Harrison To: Andrew Morton Cc: Sam Ravnborg , LKML , linux arch , James Bottomley In-Reply-To: <20080201030329.9b760777.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080201104718.GA11717@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080201030329.9b760777.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:21:34 -0800 Message-Id: <1201864894.23523.117.camel@brick> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 32 On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 03:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:47:18 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > James said in a related posting that the Section mismatch > > warnings were getting out of control. > > eh. They're easy - the build system tells you about them! > > > The list is here: > > Question is: why do people keep adding new ones when they are so easy to > detect and fix? > > Asnwer: because neither they nor their patch integrators are doing adequate > compilation testing. Because if there already exists more than a handful peoples' eyes glaze over and ignore "just one more warning" Unless they break the build, or if there currently are 0 and they make it non-zero, people seem not to care....sad. Probably the same for sparse/checkpatch, "there's plenty already, I can't be bothered to look" Subject to someone _making_ it an issue, can't see it changing. Harvey -- 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/