linux-kernel - Re: modpost warning question

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:55:03 +1000
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	sam@...nborg.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modpost warning question

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 02:14 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> I'm seeing the following warning:
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to
> .exit.text:gfar_mdio_exit (between 'gfar_init' and 'gfar_mdio_init')
> 
> I don't understand why its not ok to access .exit.text from .init.text
> 
> The following addresses the issue, however I don't particularly like it:

Because exit.text is removed when compiling built-in

Ben.


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