From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sedat Dilek Subject: [PATCH] smsc-ircc2: Fix section mismatch derived from smsc_ircc_pnp_driver variable Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 03:28:44 +0100 Message-ID: <1294021724-30337-1-git-send-email-sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek To: samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:38313 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753169Ab1ACC3C (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Jan 2011 21:29:02 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >>From my build.log: drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.o(.data+0x18): Section mismatch in reference from the variable smsc_ircc_pnp_driver to the function .init.text:smsc_ircc_pnp_probe() The variable smsc_ircc_pnp_driver references the function __init smsc_ircc_pnp_probe() If the reference is valid then annotate the variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable: *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console, This patch fixes the warning. Tested with linux-next (next-20101231) Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek --- drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c b/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c index 8c57bfb..0ebd4a8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c +++ b/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c @@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static int __init smsc_ircc_pnp_probe(struct pnp_dev *dev, return 0; } -static struct pnp_driver smsc_ircc_pnp_driver = { +static struct pnp_driver smsc_ircc_pnp_driver __refdata = { .name = "smsc-ircc2", .id_table = smsc_ircc_pnp_table, .probe = smsc_ircc_pnp_probe, -- 1.7.4.rc0