2012-05-02 23:30:33

by Hartley Sweeten

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Subject: Question: Section mismatch warnings in drivers/net

Hello all,

I noticed a number of section mismatch warnings in various
drivers/net/ drivers. I was going to submit some patches to
clean them up but then saw these commits:

commit 948252cb9e01d65a89ecadf67be5018351eee15e
Author: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Date: Tue May 31 19:27:48 2011 -0700

Revert "net: fix section mismatches"

This reverts commit e5cb966c0838e4da43a3b0751bdcac7fe719f7b4.

It causes new build regressions with gcc-4.2 which is
pretty common on non-x86 platforms.

Reported-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

commit e5cb966c0838e4da43a3b0751bdcac7fe719f7b4
Author: Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Apr 18 13:31:20 2011 +0000

net: fix section mismatches

Fix build warnings like the following:

WARNING: drivers/net/built-in.o(.data+0x12434): Section mismatch in reference from the variable madge

And add some consts to EISA device ID tables along the way.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Was the issue with the build regressions ever worked out? Would
patches to fix the section mismatches be appropriate now?

Regards,
Hartley