section miss-matches in older 3.8.3 kernel, and one question

section miss-matches in older 3.8.3 kernel, and one question

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

In my attempts to find a 64 bit or PAE enabled kernel to run on my older 
ASUS M2N-SLI Delux mobo, I saw a note go by during the build that there 
were 9 section-miss-matches.

But when I applied the cli option recommended to the make lines in my 
makeit script, I only got these 2 squawks.

WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xcce): Section mismatch in 
reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the function 
.init.text:DepcaSignature()
The function depca_isa_probe() references
the function __init DepcaSignature().
This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init 
annotation or the annotation of DepcaSignature is wrong.

WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xd22): Section mismatch in 
reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the function 
.init.text:depca_hw_init()
The function depca_isa_probe() references
the function __init depca_hw_init().
This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init 
annotation or the annotation of depca_hw_init is wrong.

I am not capable to fixing these, too many years & miles on the wet ram, 
but I thought that maybe someone might be interested.

Also, these kernels seem to want to drop me to an initramfs$ prompt, where, 
since both kayboard and mouse are wireless usb, there is no connection, so 
I have to hit the reset button & try a known good kernel.

Has the use of mkinitramfs been deprecated? and if so, replace by what?

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene
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Re: section miss-matches in older 3.8.3 kernel, and one question

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 26 December 2013, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Greetings;
>
>In my attempts to find a 64 bit or PAE enabled kernel to run on my older
>ASUS M2N-SLI Delux mobo, I saw a note go by during the build that there
>were 9 section-miss-matches.
>
>But when I applied the cli option recommended to the make lines in my
>makeit script, I only got these 2 squawks.
>
>WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xcce): Section mismatch
>in reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the function
>.init.text:DepcaSignature()
>The function depca_isa_probe() references
>the function __init DepcaSignature().
>This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init
>annotation or the annotation of DepcaSignature is wrong.
>
>WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xd22): Section mismatch
>in reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the function
>.init.text:depca_hw_init()
>The function depca_isa_probe() references
>the function __init depca_hw_init().
>This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init
>annotation or the annotation of depca_hw_init is wrong.
>
>I am not capable to fixing these, too many years & miles on the wet ram,
>but I thought that maybe someone might be interested.
>
>Also, these kernels seem to want to drop me to an initramfs$ prompt,
>where, since both kayboard and mouse are wireless usb, there is no
>connection, so I have to hit the reset button & try a known good kernel.
>
Never mind the following question, the 3.8.3 I was working on just booted, 
seems to be running nicely.

Thanks & Happy Holidays to all.

>Has the use of mkinitramfs been deprecated? and if so, replace by what?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Cheers, Gene


Cheers, Gene
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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Re: section miss-matches in older 3.8.3 kernel, and one question

[Randy Dunlap]

On 12/26/13 10:58, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> In my attempts to find a 64 bit or PAE enabled kernel to run on my older 
> ASUS M2N-SLI Delux mobo, I saw a note go by during the build that there 
> were 9 section-miss-matches.
> 
> But when I applied the cli option recommended to the make lines in my 
> makeit script, I only got these 2 squawks.
> 
> WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xcce): Section mismatch in 
> reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the function 
> .init.text:DepcaSignature()
> The function depca_isa_probe() references
> the function __init DepcaSignature().
> This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init 
> annotation or the annotation of DepcaSignature is wrong.
> 
> WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xd22): Section mismatch in 
> reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the function 
> .init.text:depca_hw_init()
> The function depca_isa_probe() references
> the function __init depca_hw_init().
> This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init 
> annotation or the annotation of depca_hw_init is wrong.
> 
> I am not capable to fixing these, too many years & miles on the wet ram, 
> but I thought that maybe someone might be interested.

This driver was removed from the kernel source tree on Jan. 16, 2013.

Sure, it's still in 3.8.x so those section mismatches could be fixed,
but most section mismatches have been recently fixed by eliminating
CONFIG_HOTPLUG and removing the use of all __devinit* and __devexit*.

Do you use this driver?  is it barfing?
or you just happened to build it and saw these warnings?

thanks,
-- 
~Randy

Re: section miss-matches in older 3.8.3 kernel, and one question

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 26 December 2013, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>On 12/26/13 10:58, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>> 
>> In my attempts to find a 64 bit or PAE enabled kernel to run on my
>> older ASUS M2N-SLI Delux mobo, I saw a note go by during the build
>> that there were 9 section-miss-matches.
>> 
>> But when I applied the cli option recommended to the make lines in my
>> makeit script, I only got these 2 squawks.
>> 
>> WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xcce): Section
>> mismatch in reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the
>> function
>> .init.text:DepcaSignature()
>> The function depca_isa_probe() references
>> the function __init DepcaSignature().
>> This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init
>> annotation or the annotation of DepcaSignature is wrong.
>> 
>> WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xd22): Section
>> mismatch in reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the
>> function
>> .init.text:depca_hw_init()
>> The function depca_isa_probe() references
>> the function __init depca_hw_init().
>> This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init
>> annotation or the annotation of depca_hw_init is wrong.
>> 
>> I am not capable to fixing these, too many years & miles on the wet
>> ram, but I thought that maybe someone might be interested.
>
>This driver was removed from the kernel source tree on Jan. 16, 2013.
>
>Sure, it's still in 3.8.x so those section mismatches could be fixed,
>but most section mismatches have been recently fixed by eliminating
>CONFIG_HOTPLUG and removing the use of all __devinit* and __devexit*.
>
>Do you use this driver?  is it barfing?
>or you just happened to build it and saw these warnings?

The latter Randy, and I can recall when they were moderately important in 
the 2.6 days.  FWIW, I just built, but haven't reboot tested yet, a 3.12.0, 
with no reported errors... But now kmail is back to freezing its composer 
for 2 or 3 minutes at a time while running 3.8.3. 3.8.2 didn't do that 
nearly as often.

Thanks, Randy

Cheers, Gene
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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Re: section miss-matches in older 3.8.3 kernel, and one question

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 26 December 2013, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Thursday 26 December 2013, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>On 12/26/13 10:58, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings;
>>> 
>>> In my attempts to find a 64 bit or PAE enabled kernel to run on my
>>> older ASUS M2N-SLI Delux mobo, I saw a note go by during the build
>>> that there were 9 section-miss-matches.
>>> 
>>> But when I applied the cli option recommended to the make lines in my
>>> makeit script, I only got these 2 squawks.
>>> 
>>> WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xcce): Section
>>> mismatch in reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the
>>> function
>>> .init.text:DepcaSignature()
>>> The function depca_isa_probe() references
>>> the function __init DepcaSignature().
>>> This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init
>>> annotation or the annotation of DepcaSignature is wrong.
>>> 
>>> WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xd22): Section
>>> mismatch in reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the
>>> function
>>> .init.text:depca_hw_init()
>>> The function depca_isa_probe() references
>>> the function __init depca_hw_init().
>>> This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init
>>> annotation or the annotation of depca_hw_init is wrong.
>>> 
>>> I am not capable to fixing these, too many years & miles on the wet
>>> ram, but I thought that maybe someone might be interested.
>>
>>This driver was removed from the kernel source tree on Jan. 16, 2013.
>>
>>Sure, it's still in 3.8.x so those section mismatches could be fixed,
>>but most section mismatches have been recently fixed by eliminating
>>CONFIG_HOTPLUG and removing the use of all __devinit* and __devexit*.
>>
>>Do you use this driver?  is it barfing?
>>or you just happened to build it and saw these warnings?
>
>The latter Randy, and I can recall when they were moderately important in
>the 2.6 days.  FWIW, I just built, but haven't reboot tested yet, a
>3.12.0, with no reported errors... But now kmail is back to freezing its
>composer for 2 or 3 minutes at a time while running 3.8.3. 3.8.2 didn't
>do that nearly as often.
>
>Thanks, Randy
>
>Cheers, Gene

A 3rd ps, 3.12.0 now running, but I see this in dmesg:

microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x01000065
microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x01000065
microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x01000065
microcode: CPU3: patch_level=0x01000065
microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, 
Peter Oruba

The correct patch level for this phenom cpu is 0x01000083

I had enabled an option for early microcode, perhaps I should disable it 
and rebuild?

Cheers, Gene
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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