linux-kernel - Re: [patch 6/6] virtio: fix section mismatch warnings

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:07:44 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] virtio: fix section mismatch warnings

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:27:26 +1030
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:19:01 am Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> >  This patch fixes the following warnings by renaming the driver structures
> >  to be suffixed with _driver.
> > 
> >  WARNING: drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_balloon to the function .devexit.text:virtballoon_remove()
> > 
> >  WARNING: drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_rng to the function .devexit.text:virtrng_remove()
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> 
> Andrew, will you take these?
> 

umm, sure.  But I wish I knew how the patch worked.  Is there some
magic sauce which moves a variable called foo_driver into a different
section or what?

And if so, what was I doing when that got done :(
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