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

[Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>]

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.

>From init.h:
/* modpost check for section mismatches during the kernel build.
 * A section mismatch happens when there are references from a
 * code or data section to an init section (both code or data).
 * The init sections are (for most archs) discarded by the kernel
 * when early init has completed so all such references are potential bugs.
 * For exit sections the same issue exists.
 * The following markers are used for the cases where the reference to
 * the *init / *exit section (code or data) is valid and will teach
 * modpost not to issue a warning.
 * The markers follow same syntax rules as __init / __initdata. */
#define __ref            __section(.ref.text) noinline
#define __refdata        __section(.ref.data)
#define __refconst       __section(.ref.rodata)

	Sam