Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

Randy Dunlap
2008-01-10T06:26:20Z

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:07:28 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> This is the current list of warnings

Sam,

Several of these are due to driver variable names not matching
the whitelisted names in modpost. I have patches for the ones
that I have identified so far. And I have patches for a few of
the others that are true section mismatch problems (total of 8
patches ready for now).

The whitelisted names will always be a (small) problem.
Can __init_refok be used in these cases.. or some other new
attribute, instead of forever adding to the whitelist or
modifying variable names?

> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x738a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:ebda_addr (between 'discover_ebda' and 'get_model_name')
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x73c4): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:ebda_size (between 'discover_ebda' and 'get_model_name')

patch ready.

> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x605e14): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'cciss_pci_init' and 'cciss_getgeometry')

patch ready.

> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.exit.text+0xc64d): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:_asc_def_iop_base (between 'advansys_isa_remove' and 'advansys_eisa_remove')

patch ready.

> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x7e9b8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:tpm_inf_pnp_probe (between 'tpm_inf_pnp' and 'cn_idx')

patch ready.

> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0xd44d8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:prism2_plx_id_table (between 'prism2_plx_drv_id' and 'dev_info')

patch ready.

> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x149908): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:av7110_attach (between 'av7110_extension' and 'ir_protocol')

patch ready.

> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1b3ce0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:megaraid_probe_one (between 'megaraid_pci_driver_g' and 'class_device_attr_megaraid_mbox_app_hndl')

patch ready.

> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xb0c71d): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: (between 'qla2xxx_pci_error_detected' and 'qla2xxx_pci_mmio_enabled')

patch ready.

> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xb4ff4b): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: (between 'sym2_io_error_detected' and 'sym2_io_slot_dump')

Patch sent by /me on 2007.OCT.29 to linux-scsi & akpm.

I will send the ready patches sometime on THU 2008.JAN.10.

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~Randy