From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc-ircc2: Fix section mismatch derived from smsc_ircc_pnp_driver variable Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:53:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20110103.115319.245401044.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1294021724-30337-1-git-send-email-sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: samuel@sortiz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sedat.dilek@gmail.com To: sedat.dilek@googlemail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1294021724-30337-1-git-send-email-sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Sedat Dilek Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 03:28:44 +0100 >>>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 Just like your other patch, this fix is not correct. Mark smsc_ircc_pbp_probe() as __devinit instead of __init to fix this bug.