From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, j@w1.fi,
akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hostap: fix section mismatch warning
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:06:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071029210620.GB27547@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4726497F.2010709@oracle.com>
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:58:39PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >Would you mind explaining how changing the name of the pci_driver
> >variable resolves this? There must be some magic here...
>
> Oh, sure. In scripts/mod/modpost.c, there is a whitelist of variable
> name suffixes. Those suffixes are assumed to be safe for referring
> to non-text code/data. OTOH, if someone complains enough, another
> whitelist table element can also be added...
Ah, got it. Thanks!
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-29 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-29 18:20 [PATCH] hostap: fix section mismatch warning Randy Dunlap
2007-10-29 20:52 ` John W. Linville
2007-10-29 20:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-10-29 21:06 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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