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Message-Id: <20100113170744.b45c9220.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:07:44 -0800 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] virtio: fix section mismatch warnings On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:27:26 +1030 Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:19:01 am Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > This patch fixes the following warnings by renaming the driver structures > > to be suffixed with _driver. > > > > WARNING: drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_balloon to the function .devexit.text:virtballoon_remove() > > > > WARNING: drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_rng to the function .devexit.text:virtrng_remove() > > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com> > > Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> > > Andrew, will you take these? > umm, sure. But I wish I knew how the patch worked. Is there some magic sauce which moves a variable called foo_driver into a different section or what? And if so, what was I doing when that got done :( -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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