linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lguest: clean rest of linkage warnings (bar one)

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:45:49 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lguest: clean rest of linkage warnings (bar one)

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:09:42PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> My previous warning fix broke lguest if your text size wasn't correct
> to make the __start_paravirtprobe aligned correctly.  Put the separate
> paravirtprobe section back, but inside the init section so it gets
> discarded.
> 
> It also fixes the remaining warnings, except one.  The code in
> modpost.c which needs to be taught that it's legal to link from
> .paravirtprobe to .init.text is horrible, and I'm pretty sure I'd just
> make it worse.

If you drop me a sample of the exact warning I will add this one too.
Current kbuild.git contains a lot of fixes in this area so I refer to
do so on top of that tree.

	Sam
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