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

Matt Mackall
2009-12-12T00:33:18Z

On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 01:21 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:08:49PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Another option is to annotate the relevant variable.

Ok, I guess I knew about the annotations. So I take it the name magic
exists just for convenience or to hit the common cases?

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