Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:27:08 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:14:11 -0800 (PST)

> You can't do that, the FOO_CONSOLE config options depend upon
> FOO=y.
> 
> That's why I'm not worried about this issue and it's not critical at
> all.

Adrian, if you're interested in tackling this "fun" problem,
have a look at add_preferred_console() and find a way to make
that not marked __init. (it's called by sunserial_console_match)

That's what causes this dependency chain of __init problems for the
Sun serial console drivers.

It's problematic, furthermore, because even if one could call
add_preferred_console() from a module properly, it doesn't have the
desired effect of changing init's stdin/stdout/stderr
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