linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MTD: pxa2xx: move pxa2xx_flash

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Message-ID: <4C52F6C1.5090207@mvista.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:58:57 +0400
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...sta.com>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
CC:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@...vell.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MTD: pxa2xx: move pxa2xx_flash_probe to .devinit.text

Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> This fixes the following warning by modpost:

> 	WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x15018): Section mismatch in reference from the variable pxa2xx_flash_driver to the function .init.text:pxa2xx_flash_probe()
> 	The variable pxa2xx_flash_driver references
> 	the function __init pxa2xx_flash_probe()
> 	If the reference is valid then annotate the
> 	variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
> 	*_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,

> I choosed to do this instead of using platform_driver_probe as the remove

    s/choosed/chose/

> function uses __devexit.

    Perhaps remove() method should have been fixed instead -- I doubt that 
this is a hotplug device.

WBR, Sergei

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