On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 09:08:51PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 06:10:55PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:40:42AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > came out of a 'make buildcheck' a day or two ago (the following day,
> > > Sam nuked reference_discarded.pl in favour of it being done
> > > magically somewhere else (I've not looked into how its done now).
> > The check is part of modpost now. modpost is only used when building
> > modules but that holds true for most builds anyway therefore I did not
> > move it to a separate executable.
> >...
>
> This doesn't sound good.
>
> This means that we have no longer any tool that warns us about e.g.
> references from non-__exit code to __exit code [1]?
> [1] __exit, not __{dev,cpu,mem}exit
It does warn for this also. The test I have carried out has mostly been
on allmodconfig builds though. I assume you are worried for the case
when a module is built-in and the __exit section is discarded - or?
Sam
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