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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [git pull] x86 fixes
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* Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> I will be happy to merge a patch that makes the warnings 
> become visible again and also to make them hard errors.
>
> But for now I cannot take the additional work it requires to 
> follow all the section mismatch warnings that suddenly will 
> pop up for the different architectures, which is why I 
> hesitate to create said patch myself.

Ok - i'm working on a patch that enables it on x86 and makes it 
a hard failure, and brings the number of warnings down to a zero 
baseline where we can base a sane future on. Other architectures 
can then opt-in too when they see fit - or can leave it disabled 
if it's too much work for them.

	Ingo