linux-kernel - Re: section mismatch with a platform driver

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Message-ID: <912ec82a0810131158o316201a5o803cb46c67c1b065@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:58:43 +0200
From:	"Neshama Parhoti" <pneshama@...il.com>
To:	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Cc:	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: section mismatch with a platform driver

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
>> Does that mean that all drivers with __init in their probe functions are bogus ?
>
> It depends.  If your platform doesn't support hotplug, then it's possible
> that the probe function is only called during system init, so it would be OK.

Hmm any idea then why did it give me a section mismatch warning ?

Thanks!!
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