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

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Message-ID: <20070605080526.GA21991@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:05:26 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:53:13PM -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.
Thanks. I didn't notice it was sparc only otherwise I would have cc'ed you
and sparclinux.

	Sam
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