Re: (hacky) [PATCH] silence MODPOST section mismatch warnings

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:51:47PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:34:18 -0700
> 
> > MODPOST seems to be spewing bogus warnings.  It's not clear how best
> > to fix it so perhaps we should silence it for now?
> 
> Most of them are legitimate, the only one that needs sorting
> is the mm/slab.c case and people are working on that.
> 
> The rest are useful and I've been working to fix things up
> on sparc64 and the networking, and in fact I'm very happy
> about these notifications.
> 
> Please don't apply a sledgehammer to this issue, thanks.

I've not had one accurate one on ARM yet.

Here's another example:

WARNING: init/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:
 from .text between 'rest_init' (at offset 0x4c) and 'run_init_process'

from init/main.c:

static void noinline rest_init(void)
        __releases(kernel_lock)

static void run_init_process(char *init_filename)

Clearly, it just does _not_ work.

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Russell King
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