Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:08:49 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       samr@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: hwrng: virtio - Rename driver object to remove section mismatch
 warning
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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:25:57 -0600 Matt Mackall wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 23:36 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Hi:
> > 
> > Finally found the cause of the section mismatch warning in hwrng.
> > Apparently in addition to __devexit_p we now have to name the
> > variable in a certain way.
> 
> That's fairly appalling. Any idea why?

(I haven't read the rest of this thread..)

scripts/mod/modpost.c looks for certain variable names to identify
variables that can have references to other (non-data) sections.
It's mostly explained there.

(added cc: Sam)

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