Re: 2.6.23-rc2 compile warnings & 1 section mismatch

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 03:38:37PM +0100, Alex Smith wrote:
> On 04/08/07, tla <tla@oak.selfip.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   The following warnings (17) and section mismatch (1) were observed
> > when compiling linux 2.6.23-rc2.
> >
> *snip*
> >   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> >   KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms1.S
> >   AS      .tmp_kallsyms1.o
> >   LD      .tmp_vmlinux2
> >   KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.S
> >   AS      .tmp_kallsyms2.o
> >   LD      vmlinux.o
> >   MODPOST vmlinux.o
> > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x183): Section mismatch: reference to
> > .init.text:start_kernel (between 'is386' and 'check_x87')
> >   LD      vmlinux
> >   SYSMAP  System.map
> >   SYSMAP  .tmp_System.map
> 
> I can confirm this section mismatch. I got it while building from
> latest (today) linux-2.6.git.
It is a false positive. But as it originates from assembler it is less trivial
to fix so queued for later.
Please ignore for now.

But that said please report all new warnings - this is helpfull.

	Sam
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