From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: kbuild: Section mismatch warnings
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:49:26 -0500
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On Friday 17 February 2006 17:47, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Several warnings are refereces to module parameters - sound/oss/mad16.o
> as the most visible one. I have not yet figured out if this is a false
> positive or not. Removing __initdata on the moduleparam variable solves
> it, but then this may be the wrong approach.
> 

It looks like your check does not like when data associated with a module
parameter is marked __initdata. But I think it is allowed as long as
module parameter access mode is 0 so we don't create sysfs entry for it. 

-- 
Dmitry
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