Re: [PATCH] ARM: reenable DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Feb 16 2011 - 12:39:23 EST


On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:23:13 +0100 Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> For 2.6.38-rc4-git9 only 29 out of 133 defconfigs still produce section
> mismatches. These defconfigs produce 55 mismatches (weighted sum, so
> maybe less uniq mismatches).
>
> This is in my opinion enough to start scaring people about the remaining
> problems.

Yes, we have way too many of these and need more eyes on them.


> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 3967c23..1130dd4 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ config HEADERS_CHECK
>
> config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
> bool "Enable full Section mismatch analysis"
> - depends on UNDEFINED || (BLACKFIN)
> + depends on ARM || BLACKFIN

I would even like something like this:

depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || KERNEL_DEVELOPER

or even
select DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH if KERNEL_DEVELOPER

to make these warnings appear... but even with today's other warnings, lots
of them are ignored.


> default y
> # This option is on purpose disabled for now.
> # It will be enabled when we are down to a reasonable number
> --


---
~Randy
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