statistics-infrastructure-make-printk_clock-a-generic-kernel-wide-nsec-resolution.patch
 
shows why __attribute__((weak)) is harmful because you don't see if a 
required non-weak implemtation is missing:

In this case, the weak printk_clock() was renamed to timestamp_clock(), 
but the ARM and i386 implementations weren't renamed...

cu
Adrian

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