Re: [PATCH] Fix section mismatches in virtual framebuffer

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

[adding linux-fbdev mailing list]

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>


On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:17:15 +0100 Henrik Kretzschmar wrote:

> Both structs, vfb_default and vfb_fix, should not be freed,
> since they are referenced and used by the struct fb_info of that device.
> 
> WARNING: drivers/video/vfb.o(.devinit.text+0x13f): Section mismatch in
> reference from the function vfb_probe() to the variable
> .init.data:vfb_default
> The function __devinit vfb_probe() references
> a variable __initdata vfb_default.
> If vfb_default is only used by vfb_probe then
> annotate vfb_default with a matching annotation.
> 
> WARNING: drivers/video/vfb.o(.devinit.text+0x162): Section mismatch in
> reference from the function vfb_probe() to the variable
> .init.data:vfb_fix
> The function __devinit vfb_probe() references
> a variable __initdata vfb_fix.
> If vfb_fix is only used by vfb_probe then
> annotate vfb_fix with a matching annotation.
> 
> WARNING: drivers/video/vfb.o(.devinit.text+0x177): Section mismatch in
> reference from the function vfb_probe() to the variable
> .init.data:vfb_fix
> The function __devinit vfb_probe() references
> a variable __initdata vfb_fix.
> If vfb_fix is only used by vfb_probe then
> annotate vfb_fix with a matching annotation.
> 
> WARNING: drivers/video/vfb.o(.devinit.text+0x184): Section mismatch in
> reference from the function vfb_probe() to the (unknown reference)
> .init.data:(unknown)
> The function __devinit vfb_probe() references
> a (unknown reference) __initdata (unknown).
> If (unknown) is only used by vfb_probe then
> annotate (unknown) with a matching annotation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
> ---
>  drivers/video/vfb.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/vfb.c b/drivers/video/vfb.c
> index b8ab995..ae5796d 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/vfb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/vfb.c
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void rvfree(void *mem, unsigned long size)
>  	vfree(mem);
>  }
>  
> -static struct fb_var_screeninfo vfb_default __initdata = {
> +static struct fb_var_screeninfo vfb_default = {
>  	.xres =		640,
>  	.yres =		480,
>  	.xres_virtual =	640,
> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static struct fb_var_screeninfo vfb_default __initdata = {
>        	.vmode =	FB_VMODE_NONINTERLACED,
>  };
>  
> -static struct fb_fix_screeninfo vfb_fix __initdata = {
> +static struct fb_fix_screeninfo vfb_fix = {
>  	.id =		"Virtual FB",
>  	.type =		FB_TYPE_PACKED_PIXELS,
>  	.visual =	FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR,
> -- 


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~Randy