From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 20:51:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] microcode: fix section mismatch warning Message-Id: <20070531205122.GG27305@uranus.ravnborg.org> List-Id: References: <617E1C2C70743745A92448908E030B2A01929DD3@scsmsx411.amr.corp.intel.com> <465EE7BB.4050605@redhat.com> <20070531200446.GA27305@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20070531200446.GA27305@uranus.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Prarit Bhargava , tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk Cc: Christoph Lameter , "Luck, Tony" , Randy Dunlap , David Chinner , Andrew Morton , lkml , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Fix the following section mismatch warnings in microcode.c: WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x3966): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: (between 'microcode_init' and 'parse_maxcpus') WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-in.o(.init.text+0x3992): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: (between 'microcode_init' and 'parse_maxcpus') The warning are caused by a function marked __init that calls a function marked __exit. Functions marked __exit may be discarded either during link or run-time and thus the reference is not good. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg --- diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c b/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c index 83f825f..d865d04 100644 --- a/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/microcode.c @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ static int __init microcode_dev_init (void) return 0; } -static void __exit microcode_dev_exit (void) +static void microcode_dev_exit (void) { misc_deregister(µcode_dev); }