Re: smp_locks reference_discarded errors

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 14:05:52 EST


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]?

> Sam

cu
Adrian

[1] __exit, not __{dev,cpu,mem}exit

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