linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] ACPI dock: move some functions to .init.text

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Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:48:38 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] ACPI dock: move some functions to .init.text

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 09:13:39AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> find_dock and find_bay are only called by dock_init which lives in
> .init.text dock_add is only called by find_dock and find_bay.  So all
> three functions can be moved to .init.text, too.
> 
> This fixes:
> 
>         WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x2134b7): Section mismatch in reference from the function dock_add() to the function .init.text:platform_device_register_resndata()
>         The function dock_add() references
>         the function __init platform_device_register_resndata().
>         This is often because dock_add lacks a __init
>         annotation or the annotation of platform_device_register_resndata is wrong.
> 
> for a build with unset CONFIG_MODULES.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
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