From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D152EDDE25 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:14:55 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:14:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Kumar Gala To: sam@ravnborg.org Subject: modpost warning question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , I'm seeing the following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:gfar_mdio_exit (between 'gfar_init' and 'gfar_mdio_init') I don't understand why its not ok to access .exit.text from .init.text The following addresses the issue, however I don't particularly like it: diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c index ac3596f..100bf41 100644 --- a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c +++ b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c @@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ int __init gfar_mdio_init(void) return driver_register(&gianfar_mdio_driver); } -void __exit gfar_mdio_exit(void) +void gfar_mdio_exit(void) { driver_unregister(&gianfar_mdio_driver); } diff --git a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.h b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.h index 5d34004..b373091 100644 --- a/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.h +++ b/drivers/net/gianfar_mii.h @@ -42,5 +42,5 @@ struct gfar_mii { int gfar_mdio_read(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum); int gfar_mdio_write(struct mii_bus *bus, int mii_id, int regnum, u16 value); int __init gfar_mdio_init(void); -void __exit gfar_mdio_exit(void); +void gfar_mdio_exit(void); #endif /* GIANFAR_PHY_H */