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On 6/27/22 11:38, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On 27/06/22 06:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.51 release.
>> There are 135 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>> let me know.
>>
>> Responses should be made by Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:19:09 +0000.
>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>>     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.15.51-rc1.gz
>> or in the git tree and branch at:
>>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.15.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
> 
> Results from Linaro's test farm.
> The following new warnings have been found while building ixp4xx_defconfig for Arm combinations with GCC:
> 
>    WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(___ksymtab_gpl+ixp4xx_irq_init+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_ixp4xx_irq_init to the function .init.text:ixp4xx_irq_init()
>    The symbol ixp4xx_irq_init is exported and annotated __init
>    Fix this by removing the __init annotation of ixp4xx_irq_init or drop the export.
> 
>    WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(___ksymtab_gpl+ixp4xx_timer_setup+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_ixp4xx_timer_setup to the function .init.text:ixp4xx_timer_setup()
>    The symbol ixp4xx_timer_setup is exported and annotated __init
>    Fix this by removing the __init annotation of ixp4xx_timer_setup or drop the export.
> 

This is a side effect of commit 03c1120b3d9c ("modpost: fix section mismatch check
for exported init/exit sections") which exposes the above problems.

Guenter