Re: [PATCH]: Fix __devinit and __devexit issues with sound drivers

[Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:49:03 -0500,
> Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>   
>> Fix __devinit and __devexit issues with sound drivers.
>>
>> Resolves MODPOST warnings similar to:
>>
>> WARNING: sound/drivers/snd-dummy.o - Section mismatch: reference to
>> .init.text:snd_dummy_probe from .data.rel.local between 'snd_dummy_driver' (at
>> 		offset 0x0) and 'snd_dummy_controls'
>> WARNING: sound/drivers/snd-mtpav.o - Section mismatch: reference to
>> .init.text:snd_mtpav_probe from .data.rel.local between 'snd_mtpav_driver' (at
>> 		offset 0x0) and 'snd_mtpav_input'
>> WARNING: sound/drivers/snd-virmidi.o - Section mismatch: reference to
>> .init.text:snd_virmidi_probe from .data.rel.local after 'snd_virmidi_driver' (at
>> 		offset 0x0)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
>>     
>
>   

Sorry for the late reply Takashi -- I got tied up with a few other things.

> Thanks for the patch.  But I'm afraid we need to change more from
> __init* to __devinit*, i.e. the functions called from __devinit
> shouldn't be __init but also __deveinit (for example, some functions
> in sound/drivers/dummy.c should be __devinit too).  Ditto for
> __initdata.
>
>   

It's odd that MODPOST didn't kick out more warnings.  I was relying on 
it to complain about __init & __devinit collisions.  I've ping'd a few 
others to see if we can figure out why no further errors were output.

> Also, could you separate patches for sound/oss/* and others?  We keep
> only ALSA stuff in our tree and it's not easy to apply the patches to
> old OSS drivers all together.
>
>   

Sure -- new patcheset to follow.

P.


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