linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] console: fix section mismatch warning in vgacon.c

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:01:14 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] console: fix section mismatch warning in vgacon.c

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:43:59 +0200 Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 07:37:29AM +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 23:27 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > Fix following section mismatch warning:
> > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x121e62): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem (between 'vgacon_startup' and 'vgacon_scrolldelta')
> > > 
> > > Browsing the code it seems that vgacon_scrollback_startup() is only
> > > called during the init phase so the reference to the .init.text
> > > section is OK.
> > > Teach modpost not to warn using ___init_refok.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
> > Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@...il.com>
> 
> Thanks. Will you take care of forwarding it it or do we rely
> on Andrew in this area?
> 

I tossed it into the next batch for Linus.  Tomorrow, I guess.
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