From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([131.228.20.170] helo=mgw-ext11.nokia.com) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1HARDM-0005Hk-AN for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:34:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH][UBI] remove __exit on functions referenced in '.text' or '.init.text' From: Artem Bityutskiy To: bene@linutronix.de In-Reply-To: <39678.212.184.22.162.1169809215.squirrel@www.tglx.de> References: <20070122230954.1b7f77e6.b.spranger@linutronix.de> <1169656229.3609.4.camel@sauron> <39678.212.184.22.162.1169809215.squirrel@www.tglx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:33:41 +0200 Message-Id: <1169818421.9477.30.camel@sauron> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Benedikt Spranger Reply-To: dedekind@infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 12:00 +0100, bene@linutronix.de wrote: > `ubi_sysfs_vol_close' referenced in section `.text' of drivers/built-in.o= : > defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of > drivers/built-in.o`ubi_sysfs_vol_close' referenced in section `.text' of > drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of > drivers/built-in.o`ubi_sysfs_vol_close' referenced in section `.text' of > drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of > drivers/built-in.o`ubi_sysfs_close' referenced in section `.text' of > drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of > drivers/built-in.o`ubi_sysfs_close' referenced in section `.init.text' of > drivers/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of > drivers/built-in.o Hmm... 'ubi_sysfs_vol_close()' has nor __init/__exit prefix so it has to be in .text. But it is called from the 'delete_volumes()' function which has __exit attribute. So we reference 'ubi_sysfs_vol_close' which is in .text from .exit.text. But why is this a problem? --=20 Best regards, Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90= =D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC)