Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755054Ab1CKBex (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:34:53 -0500 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:46824 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754207Ab1CKBew (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:34:52 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=r/PIaqlY1z24CsyakDyIpOqXc2TsjnSYWzRdmPpd4RxUCu/Vx67Fq0/jT5V+VxRd67 T3Woj8C4K/byJPzztBp6YtNMYJ/6ybIJTil6/RbiF4widlany3IGV+N98grqhHfBVx1n PS8hanwC9NvTADkmLHIEgkFVU2KSTUbP8k9dI= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110310170508.1a3d431d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20110216200734.GA25184@merkur.ravnborg.org> <1298062040-2774-1-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> <20110310164100.5af81e3b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110310170508.1a3d431d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> From: Mike Frysinger Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:34:31 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: reenable section mismatch analysis To: Andrew Morton Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Uwe_Kleine=2DK=C3=B6nig?= , Michal Marek , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1059 Lines: 22 On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 20:05, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:00:54 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote: >> > eaaaargh! __650 lines of crap added to my i386 allmodconfig build output. >> >> and it's going to keep staying all f-ed up until people start seeing >> this stuff themselves when they write the bad code > > That won't work - everyone will either disable the messages or will > train themselves to ignore them. the status quo is obviously not working. i spent quite a bit of time in the past to get the warnings down to 0 for my builds and all ive seen since then is the # creep back up. if people arent being made aware of the issue, they obviously arent going to do anything about it. some people might condition themselves to ignore it, but that applies to any sort of warning message. -mike -- 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/