linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64

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Message-Id: <20071229.002708.30708773.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:27:08 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bunk@...nel.org
Cc:	errandir_news@....eclipse.co.uk, m.kozlowski@...land.pl,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:14:11 -0800 (PST)

> You can't do that, the FOO_CONSOLE config options depend upon
> FOO=y.
> 
> That's why I'm not worried about this issue and it's not critical at
> all.

Adrian, if you're interested in tackling this "fun" problem,
have a look at add_preferred_console() and find a way to make
that not marked __init. (it's called by sunserial_console_match)

That's what causes this dependency chain of __init problems for the
Sun serial console drivers.

It's problematic, furthermore, because even if one could call
add_preferred_console() from a module properly, it doesn't have the
desired effect of changing init's stdin/stdout/stderr
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