Re: git pull request for tip/tracing/urgent

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> hm ... doh, yes. I think we even had a bug in this area.
>
> Why is it implemented like this? These semantics seem to make no sense.

They don't, which is why .pushsection/.popsection now exists.

.section/.previous really are rather broken, but like many things with 
broken semantics there is too much that expect the broken semantics now...

	-hpa

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/