From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932233AbWFHLJt (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:09:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932240AbWFHLJt (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:09:49 -0400 Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.92]:60175 "EHLO anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932233AbWFHLJs (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:09:48 -0400 Message-ID: <4488057A.9090301@onelan.co.uk> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:09:46 +0100 From: Barry Scott User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: 2.6.17-rc6 Section mismatch warnings Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When I built 2.6.17-rc6 I see a lot of warnings after the MODPOST message about Section mismatch. What did I do wrong in building the kernel and modules? I used these commands to build 2.6.17-rc6 on FC4: $ tar xjf ~/Downloads/linux-2.6.16.tar.bz2 $ mv linux-2.6.16 linux-2.6.17-rc6 $ cd linux-2.6.17-rc6 $ bzcat ~/Downloads/patch-2.6.17-rc6.bz2| patch -p1 $ cp /boot/config-2.6.16-1.2096_FC4 ~/KernelBuild/obj/linux-2.6.17-rc6/.config $ make O=~/KernelBuild/obj/linux-2.6.17-rc6 silentoldconfig (took the defaults for all new config items) $ make O=~/KernelBuild/obj/linux-2.6.17-rc6 >make-1.log 2>&1 $ make O=~/KernelBuild/obj/linux-2.6.17-rc6 modules >make-2.log 2>&1 Here are some of the warnings: MODPOST WARNING: drivers/input/misc/wistron_btns.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:dmi_matched from .data between 'dmi_ids' (at offset 0x120) and 'keymap_aopen_1559as' ... WARNING: drivers/isdn/hisax/hisax.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:setup_teles0 from .text between 'checkcard' (at offset 0x11a5) and 'hisax_register' ... WARNING: drivers/net/3c501.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:el1_probe from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x146) and 'el_reset' WARNING: drivers/net/3c503.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x47c) and 'el2_block_output' WARNING: drivers/net/3c503.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x485) and 'el2_block_output' ... WARNING: drivers/net/wd.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text after 'init_module' (at offset 0x47d) WARNING: drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'megaraid_probe_one' (at offset 0x1f00) and 'megaraid_queue_command' WARNING: drivers/video/aty/atyfb.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'atyfb_pci_probe' (at offset 0x297f) and 'atyfb_set_par' WARNING: drivers/video/aty/atyfb.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:aty_init_cursor from .text between 'atyfb_pci_probe' (at offset 0x2dc1) and 'atyfb_set_par' WARNING: drivers/video/macmodes.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:mac_find_mode from __ksymtab between '__ksymtab_mac_find_mode' (at offset 0x0) and '__ksymtab_mac_map_monitor_sense' WARNING: fs/jffs2/jffs2.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:jffs2_zlib_init from .text between 'jffs2_compressors_init' (at offset 0x81) and 'jffs2_compressors_exit' WARNING: sound/isa/sb/snd-sbawe.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:snd_emu8000_new from .text between 'snd_sb16_probe' (at offset 0x440) and 'snd_sb16_nonpnp_remove' WARNING: sound/isa/snd-opl3sa2.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'snd_opl3sa2_pnp_cdetect' (at offset 0xe61) and 'snd_opl3sa2_pnp_detect' WARNING: sound/isa/snd-opl3sa2.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'snd_opl3sa2_pnp_detect' (at offset 0xf52) and 'snd_opl3sa2_put_single' Barry