Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:53:26 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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       akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:18:02AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:06:19 +0200
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 12:54:08AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
> > > Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:48:46 +0200
> > > 
> > > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 12:14:11AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > > > > That's why I'm not worried about this issue and it's not critical at
> > > > > all.
> > > > 
> > > > If a module calls sunserial_console_match() that's an Oops.
> > > 
> > > That's true.
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to figure out a way to fix this.
> > 
> > #ifdef FOO_CONSOLE around the sunserial_console_match() calls in the  
> > drivers should work.
> 
> It absolutely doesn't work, I tried this, see my other reply.
> 
> The issue is add_preferred_console() is __init, driver probe calls are
> __devinit which are either __init or not __init.
> 
> So even with the FOO_CONSOLE ifdef (or something similar like the
> patch I posted) we'll still get section mismatch warnings.
>...

Sorry, I shouldn't suggest stuff I haven't tried myself... :-(

cu
Adrian

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