linux-kernel - Re: Section mismatches in drivers/video/console/promcon

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Date:	Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:52:53 +0800
From:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	sam@...nborg.org, jakub@...hat.com, jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de,
	daplas@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Section mismatches in drivers/video/console/promcon

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 23:53 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 21:16:46 +0200
> 
> > > 
> > > promcon_init() can be called again from visual_init() during
> > > vc_allocate().  So anything referenced by promcon_init() should not be
> > > marked __init.
> > > 
> > > Although, if you want to keep promfont_unitable and promfont_unicount
> > > __init, you can probably use con_copy_unimap() using the default vc as
> > > the source instead of doing a promcon_init_unimap() again.
> > 
> > Too involved for me to look into.
> > I cooked up following very minimal patch - if you agree can you then please
> > forward/take care of it.
> > 
> > 	Sam
> > 
> > Subject: video: fix section mismatch warning in promcon
> 
> I'll merge this fix in via the Sparc tree since this is a sparc
> console driver.
> 

I was about to send this patch to akpm, I'll leave this to you then.

Tony


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