Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:44:40 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.25 section mismatches |
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:01:49AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * Bart Van Assche (bart.vanassche@gmail.com) wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Bart Van Assche > > <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Apparently there is a significant number of section mismatches in the > > > 2.6.25 kernel. These were already reported against 2.6.25-rc1 and are > > > still present in the final 2.6.25 release. These section mismatches > > > show up at least on the i386 and x86_64 architectures. Maybe it's a > > > good idea before a patch is merged not only to check whether the patch > > > applies cleanly but also to check whether it doesn't create any new > > > section mismatches ? > > > > > > See also http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9974. > > > > Who should look into this ? > > Sam, any of these look familiar (or put another way...are there still > outstanding section mismatch fixes in -mm)?
From a quick scan I will say that at least half of these have pending fixes in -mm. I'm looking forward to see where we are after Andrew's first merge.
Sam
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