From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:31:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:30885 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20023578AbXGJMbV (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:31:21 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6ACKkED002000; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:20:46 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6A8GWeg024963; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:16:32 +0100 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:16:32 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Sam Ravnborg , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: [KBUILD] Whitelist references from __dbe_table to .init Message-ID: <20070710081632.GA10559@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 15664 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips This is needed on MIPS where the same mechanism as get_user() is used to intercept bus error exceptions for some hardware probes. Without this patch modpost will throw spurious warnings: LD vmlinux SYSMAP System.map SYSMAP .tmp_System.map MODPOST vmlinux WARNING: arch/mips/sgi-ip22/built-in.o(__dbe_table+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 3645e98..c337246 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1047,6 +1047,7 @@ static int init_section_ref_ok(const char *name) ".pdr", "__param", "__ex_table", + "__dbe_table", ".fixup", ".smp_locks", ".plt", /* seen on ARCH=um build on x86_64. Harmless */