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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/