From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:57:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: integrator: fix section mismatch problem In-Reply-To: <10542022.FtcLF0Em3k@wuerfel> References: <1401879202-10516-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@linaro.org> <10542022.FtcLF0Em3k@wuerfel> Message-ID: <20140604105726.GB23430@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 12:57:02PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 04 June 2014 12:53:22 Linus Walleij wrote: > > This addresses a section mismatch problem in the IM-PD1 > > driver in the Integrator/AP. > > > > The IM-PD1 contains a VIC interrupt controller and therefore > > the driver calls vic_init_cascaded() which is marked __init as > > irqchips are simply not hot-pluggable and specifically the VIC > > is assumed to initiate only on boot. > > > > However the module driver model of the Integrator LM bus > > assumes that logic tile drivers can be probed at runtime. This > > is not really the case for IM-PD1: these tiles are detected at > > boot and they cannot be plugged into a running system. Before > > this patch it is of course possible to modprobe them later. > > > > By first forcing the IM-PD1 to bool we make sure this driver > > gets compiled into the kernel, and we know it will be probed > > only at boot time when the tiles are detected, so we can tag > > its probe function __init_refok as we know it won't be called > > after boot now, and the section mismatch problem goes away. > > > > Cc: Arnd Bergmann > > Cc: Russell King > > Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij > > --- > > ARM SoC folks: please apply this directly if the solution seems > > acceptable. > > Looks good to me, I'm applying this on top of another fix > I have just added to next/soc2. That's a NAK on that until the issue I've raised has been checked. -- FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: now at 9.7Mbps down 460kbps up... slowly improving, and getting towards what was expected from it.