Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933916AbZDATKb (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:10:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932734AbZDATKT (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:10:19 -0400 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:49128 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765271AbZDATKS (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 15:10:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:12:20 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Alex Chiang Cc: Jesse Barnes , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [git pull] PCI changes for 2.6.30 Message-ID: <20090401191220.GB29673@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20090331121331.3673cf59@hobbes> <20090401101309.67d0bea5@hobbes> <20090401183749.GC8188@ldl.fc.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090401183749.GC8188@ldl.fc.hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2756 Lines: 77 On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:37:49PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote: > * Jesse Barnes : > > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:01:12 -0700 (PDT) > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > > > > > > > Please consider pulling my PCI tree from > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 > > > > linux-next > > > > > > This produces > > > > > > WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x69a1): Section mismatch in > > > reference from the function dev_rescan_store() to the > > > function .devinit.text:pci_rescan_bus() The function > > > dev_rescan_store() references the function __devinit > > > pci_rescan_bus(). This is often because dev_rescan_store lacks a > > > __devinit annotation or the annotation of pci_rescan_bus is wrong. > > > > > > Hmm? > > > > Arg how did I miss that? Maybe the last build I did was missing > > hotplug support or something... Anyway looking now (at first glance I > > think pci_rescan_bus needs to drop __devinit). > > This was my fault. pci_rescan_bus() definitely does not want > __devinit. > > But I'm confused -- didn't we used to have an option in > menuconfig under Kernel Hacking that would turn on section > mismatch warnings? I used to have that turned on, and don't > remember turning it off, and I can't find it now. > > I'm told that we're supposed to set it on the make command line, > like: > > make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y -j16 > > or something. Has this changed recently or am I just imagining > things (or just plain stupid?) That was maybe one year ago we had it in menuconfig. When I get on top of things I will enable it and try to help fixing the remaining warnings. I have resisted enabling it for now as I cannot support the people that see the warnings atm. The patch to enable it is simple so if anyone want to help fix the warnings then... diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 9638d99..ee5e6f3 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -95,10 +95,6 @@ config HEADERS_CHECK config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis" - depends on UNDEFINED - # This option is on purpose disabled for now. - # It will be enabled when we are down to a resonable number - # of section mismatch warnings (< 10 for an allyesconfig build) help The section mismatch analysis checks if there are illegal references from one section to another section. Sam -- 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/