netdev - Re: [PATCH] tulip: Fix compiler warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION

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Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2012 14:20:12 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>
CC:	Grant Grundler <grundler@...isc-linux.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tulip: Fix compiler warning when
 CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y

On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 14:04 +0100, Christoph Paasch wrote:
> WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/dec/tulip/tulip.o(.text+0x4057): Section
> mismatch in reference from the function tulip_init_one() to the variable
> .devinit.rodata:early_486_chipsets
> The function tulip_init_one() references
> the variable __devinitconst early_486_chipsets.
> This is often because tulip_init_one lacks a __devinitconst
> annotation or the annotation of early_486_chipsets is wrong.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>
[...]

The section mismatch will be resolved shortly as hotplug is being made
non-optional and all the __devinit and similar section qualifiers will
go away.  There's no need to make local fixes like this now.

Ben.

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