[PATCH] kbuild: reenable section mismatch analysis
Mike Frysinger
vapier.adi at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 20:00:54 EST 2011
2011/3/10 Andrew Morton :
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:47:20 +0100 Uwe Kleine-K__nig wrote:
>> This was disabled in commit
>>
>> e5f95c8 (kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces found)
>>
>> because there were too many warnings. Now we're down to a reasonable
>> number again, so we start scaring people with the details.
>>
>> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
>> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
>> @@ -102,11 +102,7 @@ config HEADERS_CHECK
>>
>> config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
>> bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
>> - depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN)
>> default y
>> - # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
>> - # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable 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.
>
> 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
-mike
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