linux-kernel - Re: nfs: __setup_str_nfs_root_setup causes a section type conflict

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Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2009 21:21:08 +0200
From:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	parisc-linux@...ts.parisc-linux.org, Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Subject: Re: nfs: __setup_str_nfs_root_setup causes a section type conflict

On Monday 03 August 2009, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > > /home/fjp/projects/kernel/linux-2.6/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c:403:
> > >     error: __setup_str_nfs_root_setup causes a section type
> > > conflict
>
> If you do a 'make fs/nfs/nfsroot.i', and then look at the resulting
> file fs/nfs/nfsroot.i, what does the line that defines
> '__setup_str_nfs_root_setup' look like?

$ grep __setup_str_nfs_root_setup fs/nfs/nfsroot.i

static const char __setup_str_nfs_root_setup[] __attribute__ 
((__section__(".init.rodata"))) __attribute__((aligned(1))) = "nfsroot="; 
static struct obs_kernel_param __setup_nfs_root_setup 
__attribute__((__used__)) __attribute__ ((__section__(".init.setup"))) 
__attribute__((aligned((sizeof(long))))) = { __setup_str_nfs_root_setup, 
nfs_root_setup, 0 };
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