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

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Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:08:49 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	samr@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: hwrng: virtio - Rename driver object to remove section mismatch
 warning

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:25:57 -0600 Matt Mackall wrote:

> 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?

(I haven't read the rest of this thread..)

scripts/mod/modpost.c looks for certain variable names to identify
variables that can have references to other (non-data) sections.
It's mostly explained there.

(added cc: Sam)

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~Randy
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