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Date:	Fri, 5 Oct 2012 14:05:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <arm@...nel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] USB: EHCI: mark ehci_orion_conf_mbus_windows
 __devinit

On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> The __devinit section is going away soon, but while it's
> still there, we get a correct warning about
> ehci_orion_conf_mbus_windows being discarded before
> its caller, so it should be marked __devinit rather than
> __init.
> 
> Without this patch, building dove_defconfig results in:
> 
> WARNING: drivers/usb/host/built-in.o(.devinit.text+0x8a4): Section mismatch in reference from the function ehci_orion_drv_probe() to the function .init.text:ehci_orion_conf_mbus_windows()
> The function __devinit ehci_orion_drv_probe() references
> a function __init ehci_orion_conf_mbus_windows().
> If ehci_orion_conf_mbus_windows is only used by ehci_orion_drv_probe then
> annotate ehci_orion_conf_mbus_windows with a matching annotation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>

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