To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       linux arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
       James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Subject: Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?
References: <20080201104718.GA11717@uranus.ravnborg.org>
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	<1201864894.23523.117.camel@brick>
From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:02:00 -0800
In-Reply-To: <1201864894.23523.117.camel@brick> (Harvey Harrison's message of "Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:21:34 -0800")
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 > Subject to someone _making_ it an issue, can't see it changing.

Actually I think that Sam's recent improvements to the section
mismatch detection should make it easy to get at least all of the
driver issues fixed -- the problem in the past was that many warnings
would only show with certain configs or certain compilers (inlining
functions only called once would hide many warnings).

Now I just need to enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH and I'm pretty
certain to see everything (and indeed this found a few warnings in
drivers/infiniband hidden by inlining, which I've queued up a fix for).

So the __cpuinit stuff may be trickier and half false positives etc,
but I'm confident drivers/ will be cleaned up quickly now thanks to Sam.
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