linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix section mismatches in virtual framebuffer

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Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:42:31 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@...htwindheim.de>
Cc:	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@...zta.fm>,
	Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>,
	Andres Salomon <dilinger@...ian.org>,
	Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix section mismatches in virtual framebuffer

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 22:37:58 +0100 Henrik Kretzschmar wrote:

> Sorry, this patch is crap.
> 
> These structures can be freed cause they are struct and not struct*

Darn, glad that you caught that.  I sure missed it.

> But they should be __devinitdata.

Yes.

> I'm going to resend this and a couple of other fb-patches tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> Randy Dunlap schrieb:
> 
> > [adding linux-fbdev mailing list]
> >
> > Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:17:15 +0100 Henrik Kretzschmar wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Both structs, vfb_default and vfb_fix, should not be freed,
> >> since they are referenced and used by the struct fb_info of that device.
> >>
> >> WARNING: drivers/video/vfb.o(.devinit.text+0x13f): Section mismatch in
> >> reference from the function vfb_probe() to the variable
> >> .init.data:vfb_default
> >> The function __devinit vfb_probe() references
> >> a variable __initdata vfb_default.
> >> If vfb_default is only used by vfb_probe then
> >> annotate vfb_default with a matching annotation.
> >>
> >> WARNING: drivers/video/vfb.o(.devinit.text+0x162): Section mismatch in
> >> reference from the function vfb_probe() to the variable
> >> .init.data:vfb_fix
> >> The function __devinit vfb_probe() references
> >> a variable __initdata vfb_fix.
> >> If vfb_fix is only used by vfb_probe then
> >> annotate vfb_fix with a matching annotation.
> >>
> >> WARNING: drivers/video/vfb.o(.devinit.text+0x177): Section mismatch in
> >> reference from the function vfb_probe() to the variable
> >> .init.data:vfb_fix
> >> The function __devinit vfb_probe() references
> >> a variable __initdata vfb_fix.
> >> If vfb_fix is only used by vfb_probe then
> >> annotate vfb_fix with a matching annotation.
> >>
> >> WARNING: drivers/video/vfb.o(.devinit.text+0x184): Section mismatch in
> >> reference from the function vfb_probe() to the (unknown reference)
> >> .init.data:(unknown)
> >> The function __devinit vfb_probe() references
> >> a (unknown reference) __initdata (unknown).
> >> If (unknown) is only used by vfb_probe then
> >> annotate (unknown) with a matching annotation.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@...htwindheim.de>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/video/vfb.c |    4 ++--
> >>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/video/vfb.c b/drivers/video/vfb.c
> >> index b8ab995..ae5796d 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/video/vfb.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/video/vfb.c
> >> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ static void rvfree(void *mem, unsigned long size)
> >>  	vfree(mem);
> >>  }
> >>  
> >> -static struct fb_var_screeninfo vfb_default __initdata = {
> >> +static struct fb_var_screeninfo vfb_default = {
> >>  	.xres =		640,
> >>  	.yres =		480,
> >>  	.xres_virtual =	640,
> >> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static struct fb_var_screeninfo vfb_default __initdata = {
> >>        	.vmode =	FB_VMODE_NONINTERLACED,
> >>  };
> >>  
> >> -static struct fb_fix_screeninfo vfb_fix __initdata = {
> >> +static struct fb_fix_screeninfo vfb_fix = {
> >>  	.id =		"Virtual FB",
> >>  	.type =		FB_TYPE_PACKED_PIXELS,
> >>  	.visual =	FB_VISUAL_PSEUDOCOLOR,
> >> -- 
> >>     
> >
> >
> > ---
> > ~Randy
> >
> >   
> 
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