From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc1-mm5
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 01:36:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060204013613.0567ff5a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060204092941.GB9275@mars.ravnborg.org>
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:07:04AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Known problems:
> >
> > - Sam has added a new check in the kbuild tree. It detects multiple
> > instances of EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo) across separate .o files.
> >
> > It catches a _lot_ of problems. You'll see something like this:
>
> Sigh. I did a 'make allmodconfig' on x86_64 and found to my suprise only
> a sinlge symbol being exported more than one time.
>
> This is purely a consistency check introduced by commit:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild.git;a=commit;h=cd1f125e5808203d3bf58f1d04a9cbd33f60fdb6
There were several tens on powerpc, sparc64, etc.
> I can rip it out again if the noise/value ratio is too high.
No, let's keep it. We're wasting memory on this stuff.
> We should IMO try to keep the exports in generic code.
Yes, I guess so. It gets tricky when you get onto things like the string
functions, most of which may be impemented in generic code or may be in
arch code, depending on __ARCH_HAVE_stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-04 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-03 8:07 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2006-02-03 10:17 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Benoit Boissinot
2006-02-03 20:13 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Benoit Boissinot
2006-02-03 20:36 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Andrew Morton
2006-02-03 11:51 ` [-mm patch] Makefile: remove a tab from an empty line Adrian Bunk
2006-02-03 20:57 ` [-mm patch] kernel/time/timeofday.c: make struct ts_interval static Adrian Bunk
2006-02-03 21:50 ` john stultz
2006-02-03 20:59 ` [-mm patch] kernel/timer.c: make some variables static Adrian Bunk
2006-02-03 21:02 ` [-mm patch] net/ipv4/fib_rules.c: make struct fib_rules static again Adrian Bunk
2006-02-04 23:51 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-03 21:09 ` [-mm patch] make some "struct clocksource" static Adrian Bunk
2006-02-03 21:12 ` [-mm patch] arch/i386/kernel/cpu/: make tons of functions static Adrian Bunk
2006-02-03 21:25 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5: drivers/ieee1394/oui O=... builds broken Adrian Bunk
2006-02-04 2:43 ` Jody McIntyre
2006-02-04 9:20 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-04 9:08 ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-04 9:30 ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-04 9:31 ` Johannes Berg
2006-02-04 9:58 ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-06 4:31 ` Jody McIntyre
2006-02-04 7:59 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Matthias Urlichs
2006-02-04 9:29 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Sam Ravnborg
2006-02-04 9:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
[not found] <20060203000704.3964a39f.akpm__33726.4416892596$1138954098$gmane$org@osdl.org>
2006-02-08 6:20 ` 2.6.16-rc1-mm5 Reuben Farrelly
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