From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle Subject: Re: [IDE] Fix build bug Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:13:13 +0100 Message-ID: <20071025141313.GA23536@linux-mips.org> References: <20071025135334.GA23272@linux-mips.org> <20071025141305.GA11698@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ftp.linux-mips.org ([194.74.144.162]:44267 "EHLO ftp.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751699AbXJYON0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:13:26 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:28606 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20022664AbXJYONZ (ORCPT + 1 other); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:13:25 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071025141305.GA11698@uranus.ravnborg.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:13:05PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:53:34PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > CC drivers/ide/pci/generic.o > > drivers/ide/pci/generic.c:52: error: __setup_str_ide_generic_all_on causes a > > +section type conflict > > > > This sort of build error is becoming a regular issue. Either all or non > > of the elements that go into a particular section of a compilation unit > > need to be const. Or an error may result such as in this case if > > CONFIG_HOTPLUG is unset. > So we can avoid this if we invent a __constinitdata tag that uses > a new section? > I ask mainly to understand this error - not that I am that found > of the idea. Yes. Ralf