Re: hwrng: virtio - Rename driver object to remove section mismatch warning

Randy Dunlap
2009-12-11T20:11:17Z

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:25:57 -0600 Matt Mackall wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 23:36 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > Finally found the cause of the section mismatch warning in hwrng.
> > Apparently in addition to __devexit_p we now have to name the
> > variable in a certain way.
>
> That's fairly appalling. Any idea why?

(I haven't read the rest of this thread..)

scripts/mod/modpost.c looks for certain variable names to identify
variables that can have references to other (non-data) sections.
It's mostly explained there.

(added cc: Sam)

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~Randy