From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751900AbbKIR1Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2015 12:27:25 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:33446 "EHLO mail-pa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751353AbbKIR1W (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2015 12:27:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 09:27:18 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Sudip Mukherjee , "linux-input@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: parkbd - Drop bogus __init from parkbd_allocate_serio() Message-ID: <20151109172718.GA9155@dtor-ws> References: <1446911603-21242-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org> <20151109130440.GC3868@sudip-pc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 02:13:34PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Sudip, > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Sudip Mukherjee > wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:53:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1056606): Section mismatch in reference from the function parkbd_attach() to the function .init.text:parkbd_allocate_serio() > >> The function parkbd_attach() references > >> the function __init parkbd_allocate_serio(). > >> This is often because parkbd_attach lacks a __init > >> annotation or the annotation of parkbd_allocate_serio is wrong. > >> > >> Commit 33ca8ab97cbb676d ("Input: parkbd - use parallel port device > >> model") dropped the __init attribute from the sole caller of > >> parkbd_allocate_serio(), but forgot to remove it from > >> parkbd_allocate_serio() itself. > >> > >> Fixes: 33ca8ab97cbb676d ("Input: parkbd - use parallel port device model") > >> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven > > > > I don't see this with allmodconfig on i386 or on x86_64. How did you get > > this warning? But anyway, looking at the code, i did miss attribute. > > It depends on your compiler version. If your compiler decides to inline > parkbd_allocate_serio(), you won't see that warning. > > > Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee Applied, thank you. -- Dmitry