linux-kernel - Section mismatch warning patch

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Date:	Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:39:02 +0800
From:	"Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Section mismatch warning patch - microcode.c

The following errors during compilation is corrected by the following
patch (against the latest linus tree):

WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/microcode.o(.exit.text+0x6): Section mismatch
in reference from the function cleanup_module() to the variable
.cpuinit.data:mc_cpu_notifier

Please comment.   Thanks.



diff -Nurp /tmp/microcode.c arch/x86/kernel/microcode.c
--- /tmp/microcode.c    2008-02-02 16:46:43.000000000 +0800
+++ arch/x86/kernel/microcode.c 2008-02-02 16:41:58.000000000 +0800
@@ -797,7 +797,7 @@ mc_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *n
        return NOTIFY_OK;
 }

-static struct notifier_block __refdata mc_cpu_notifier = {
+static struct notifier_block mc_cpu_notifier __initdata = {
        .notifier_call = mc_cpu_callback,
 };

@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ static int __init microcode_init (void)
        return 0;
 }

-static void __exit microcode_exit (void)
+static void __init microcode_exit (void)
 {
        microcode_dev_exit();
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