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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711211304580.3664@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:05:58 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Subject: Modules: Include sections.h to avoid defining linker variables
 explicitly

Module.c should not define linker variables on its own. We have an include
file for that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>

---
 kernel/module.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/module.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/module.c	2007-11-21 13:02:39.415358527 -0800
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/module.c	2007-11-21 13:03:16.534858271 -0800
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include <asm/semaphore.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 #include <linux/license.h>
+#include <asm/sections.h>
 
 extern int module_sysfs_initialized;
 
@@ -338,9 +339,6 @@ static inline unsigned int block_size(in
 	return val;
 }
 
-/* Created by linker magic */
-extern char __per_cpu_start[], __per_cpu_end[];
-
 static void *percpu_modalloc(unsigned long size, unsigned long align,
 			     const char *name)
 {
-
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