linux-kernel - (hacky) [PATCH] silence MODPOST section mismatch warnings

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 13:34:18 -0700
From:	Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: (hacky) [PATCH] silence MODPOST section mismatch warnings

MODPOST seems to be spewing bogus warnings.  It's not clear how best
to fix it so perhaps we should silence it for now?

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 113dc77..bd6fe7b 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -872,6 +872,10 @@ static void warn_sec_mismatch(const char *modname, const char *fromsec,
 				 sechdrs[hdr->e_shstrndx].sh_offset;
 	const char *secname = secstrings + sechdrs[sym->st_shndx].sh_name;
 
+	/* FIXME: this function doesn't work correctly anymore, it's
+	 * not clear if it should be fixed or removed. */
+	return;
+
 	find_symbols_between(elf, r.r_offset, fromsec, &before, &after);
 
 	refsym = find_elf_symbol(elf, r.r_addend, sym);
-
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