Re: [PATCH] staging: ram_console: Fix section mismatches

Stephen Boyd
2012-03-08T18:12:14Z

On 03/08/12 09:56, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:08:04AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x25d5fc): Section mismatch in reference
>> from the function ram_console_driver_probe() to the function
>> .init.text:ram_console_init()
>> The function ram_console_driver_probe() references
>> the function __init ram_console_init().
>> This is often because ram_console_driver_probe lacks a __init
>> annotation or the annotation of ram_console_init is wrong.
>>
>> Mark ram_console_driver_probe() as __devinit because it's a probe
>> function and propagate the __devinit markings to the __init
>> functions the probe calls.
> What .config configuration causes this to happen? I don't see this here
> in my builds, what am I doing wrong?
>

#
# Android
#
CONFIG_ANDROID=y
# CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_IPC is not set
# CONFIG_ASHMEM is not set
# CONFIG_ANDROID_LOGGER is not set
CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_ANDROID_RAM_CONSOLE_ERROR_CORRECTION is not set
# CONFIG_ANDROID_TIMED_OUTPUT is not set
# CONFIG_ANDROID_LOW_MEMORY_KILLER is not set
# CONFIG_ANDROID_SWITCH is not set
# CONFIG_PHONE is not set

Perhaps you're missing this patch if you're on an ARM compiler?

6e2e340 (ARM: 7324/1: modpost: Fix section warnings for ARM for many
compilers, 2012-02-14)

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