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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:33:17 -0600 From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com> To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, samr@...nborg.org Subject: Re: hwrng: virtio - Rename driver object to remove section mismatch warning On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 01:21 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:08:49PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > 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. > > Another option is to annotate the relevant variable. Ok, I guess I knew about the annotations. So I take it the name magic exists just for convenience or to hit the common cases? -- http://selenic.com : development and support for Mercurial and Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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