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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: virtio-net: new section mismatch warning. revert patch?
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 16:17:30 +0200
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With v2.6.32-rcX I started getting section mismatch warnings for
virtio_net.
make with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=3Dy shows:

WARNING: drivers/net/virtio_net.o(.data+0x90): Section mismatch in
reference from the variable virtio_net to the function
=2Edevexit.text:virtnet_remove()                                       =
                            =20
The variable virtio_net references                                     =
                                      =20
the function __devexit virtnet_remove()                                =
                                      =20
If the reference is valid then annotate the                            =
                                      =20
variable with __exit* (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:         =
                                      =20
*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_con=
sole,                                 =20

virtnet_remove was converted to devexit by this commit:

	commit 3d1285beff2e8467b8c3884d83b7a91a99aa9fcd
	Author: Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
	Date:   Wed Sep 30 22:28:34 2009 +0000

	    move virtnet_remove to .devexit.text

We didn't have these warnings in v2.6.31, so this is a regression.
revert?

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MST