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

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Message-Id: <20070604.235313.85409993.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:53:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sam@...nborg.org
Cc:	adaplas@...il.com, jakub@...hat.com, jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de,
	daplas@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Section mismatches in drivers/video/console/promcon

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.

Thanks Sam.
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