From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933792AbXHFPGR (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:06:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932787AbXHFPGD (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:06:03 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:48693 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761765AbXHFPGB (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:06:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:02:45 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Alex Smith Cc: tla , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc2 compile warnings & 1 section mismatch Message-ID: <20070806150245.GA29167@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <46B4B529.5060402@oak.selfip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 03:38:37PM +0100, Alex Smith wrote: > On 04/08/07, tla 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