linux-kernel - Re: hwrng: virtio - Rename driver object to remove section mismatch warning

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Message-ID: <1260559557.24459.1320.camel@calx>
Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:25:57 -0600
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hwrng: virtio - Rename driver object to remove section
 mismatch warning

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 23:36 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Finally found the cause of the section mismatch warning in hwrng.
> Apparently in addition to __devexit_p we now have to name the
> variable in a certain way.

That's fairly appalling. Any idea why?

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