Build regressions/improvements in v4.17-rc1

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:32 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> Also I haven't been seeing this in my local builds because I have:
>
> CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y
>
> So I guess we need to work out why that's interfering with section
> mismatch analysis.

One other common case of missing section mismatch warnings is when some
versions of the compiler inline the called function, while other versions don't.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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