linux-next: build warnings after merge of the 4xx tree

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 12:11:17 EST 2011


On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> After merging the 4xx tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig)
> produced these warnings:
>
> WARN: Uncompressed kernel (size 0xe32858) overlaps the address of the wrapper()
> WARN: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0xf00000)
> WARN: Uncompressed kernel (size 0xd6c9e8) overlaps the address of the wrapper(0x400000)
> WARN: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0xe00000)
>
> Introduced by commit c55aef0e5bc6 ("powerpc/boot: Change the load address
> for the wrapper to fit the kernel").   Maybe "WARN" is not the best
> prefix for this.  To me it implies that something may go wrong and there
> is something to be fixed ...  If this is purely informational, then maybe
> "INFO" would be better.

INFO indeed would be better.  I'll try and whip up a patch tomorrow
unless Suzie beats me to it.

Sorry about that.  I saw the WARN during my testing, but the commit
log explicitly mentioned it an brainwashed me into thinking it was OK.
 I blame holiday-itis.

josh


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