From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] virtio: fix section mismatch warnings
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:07:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100113170744.b45c9220.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201001132127.26873.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:27:26 +1030
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:19:01 am Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> > This patch fixes the following warnings by renaming the driver structures
> > to be suffixed with _driver.
> >
> > WARNING: drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_balloon to the function .devexit.text:virtballoon_remove()
> >
> > WARNING: drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_rng to the function .devexit.text:virtrng_remove()
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
>
> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>
> Andrew, will you take these?
>
umm, sure. But I wish I knew how the patch worked. Is there some
magic sauce which moves a variable called foo_driver into a different
section or what?
And if so, what was I doing when that got done :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-14 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 0:48 [patch 0/6] Section mismatch fixes Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 0:48 ` [patch 2/6] hugetlb: Fix section mismatches Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 0:48 ` Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 9:28 ` David Rientjes
2010-01-13 9:28 ` David Rientjes
2010-01-13 14:29 ` Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 14:29 ` Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 15:03 ` [patch] hugetlb: Fix section mismatches #2 Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 15:03 ` Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 20:51 ` David Rientjes
2010-01-13 20:51 ` David Rientjes
2010-01-13 15:40 ` [patch 2/6] hugetlb: Fix section mismatches Lee Schermerhorn
2010-01-13 15:40 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2010-01-13 15:42 ` Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 15:42 ` Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 0:48 ` [patch 4/6] acpi: Fix section mismatch Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 3:58 ` Alex Chiang
2010-01-13 0:49 ` [patch 6/6] virtio: fix section mismatch warnings Jeff Mahoney
2010-01-13 10:57 ` Rusty Russell
2010-01-14 1:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-01-14 2:01 ` Jeff Mahoney
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