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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	megaraidlinux@lsi.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	sam@ravnborg.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] megaraid: fix section mismatch
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:57:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080110205710.56a868b6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1200026735.5337.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:45:35 -0600 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:33:16 -0800
> > Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> > > 
> > > Change megaraid_pci_driver_g variable name so that it matches the modpost
> > > whitelist that allows pointers to init text/data.
> > > 
> > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1a8e30): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:megaraid_probe_one (between 'megaraid_pci_driver_g' and 'class_device_attr_megaraid_mbox_app_hndl')
> > > 
> > 
> > All these patches fix references to possibly-discarded sections and hence
> > fix possibly-serious bugs.  So all of them should go into 2.6.24.
> 
> Renaming a variable fixes a serious bug?  It quiets a spurious warning
> from modpost, sure, but I hardly think that's -rc7 material.
> 

Rather than unerringly zooming in on the vanishingly trivial: will you be
merging the advansys and qla2xx bugfixes or would you like me to?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-11  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-10 22:33 [PATCH] megaraid: fix section mismatch Randy Dunlap
2008-01-11  0:10 ` Andrew Morton
2008-01-11  4:45   ` James Bottomley
2008-01-11  4:51     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-01-11  4:57     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-01-11  5:34       ` James Bottomley
2008-01-11  2:40 ` Patro, Sumant
2008-01-11 17:57 ` Sam Ravnborg

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