netdev - [PATCH] net: eth: 8390: remove section warning in etherh.c

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Date:	Thu, 12 Dec 2013 00:39:37 -0800
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	linux@....linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	tedheadster@...il.com, Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
Subject: [PATCH] net: eth: 8390: remove section warning in etherh.c

Commit c45f812f0280 ('8390 : Replace ei_debug with msg_enable/NETIF_MSG_*
feature') ended up moving the printout of version[] from something that
will be compiled out due to defines, to something that is now evaluated
at runtime.

That means that what always used to be an access to an __initdata string
from non-__init code started showing up as a section mismatch when it
didn't before.

All other 8390 versions skip __initdata on the version string, and
starting to annotate the whole chain of callers with __init seems like
more churn than it's worth on this driver, so remove it from etherh.c as well.

Fixes: c45f812f0280 ('8390 : Replace ei_debug with msg_enable/NETIF_MSG_* feature')
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/8390/etherh.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/etherh.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/etherh.c
index b15e482a..b36ee9e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/etherh.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/etherh.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 #define DRV_NAME	"etherh"
 #define DRV_VERSION	"1.11"

-static char version[] __initdata =
+static char version[] =
 	"EtherH/EtherM Driver (c) 2002-2004 Russell King " DRV_VERSION "\n";

 #include "lib8390.c"
-- 
1.7.10.4

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