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Date:	Fri, 8 Jan 2016 06:35:45 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>,
	linux-watchdog@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] watchdog: asm9260: remove __init and __exit annotations

On 01/08/2016 02:59 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The probe and release functions in this driver are marked
> as __init and __exit, but this is wrong as indicated by this
> Kbuild error message:
>
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1d2308): Section mismatch in reference from the variable asm9260_wdt_driver to the function .init.text:asm9260_wdt_probe()
>
> This removes the annotations, to make the sysfs unbind attribute
> and deferred probing work.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Fixes: aae03dc98177 ("watchdog: add Alphascale asm9260-wdt driver")

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>

>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c
> index 1c22ff4c523a..c9686b2fdafd 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/asm9260_wdt.c
> @@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ static struct watchdog_ops asm9260_wdt_ops = {
>   	.set_timeout	= asm9260_wdt_settimeout,
>   };
>
> -static int __init asm9260_wdt_get_dt_clks(struct asm9260_wdt_priv *priv)
> +static int asm9260_wdt_get_dt_clks(struct asm9260_wdt_priv *priv)
>   {
>   	int err;
>   	unsigned long clk;
> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ static int __init asm9260_wdt_get_dt_clks(struct asm9260_wdt_priv *priv)
>   	return 0;
>   }
>
> -static void __init asm9260_wdt_get_dt_mode(struct asm9260_wdt_priv *priv)
> +static void asm9260_wdt_get_dt_mode(struct asm9260_wdt_priv *priv)
>   {
>   	const char *tmp;
>   	int ret;
> @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static void __init asm9260_wdt_get_dt_mode(struct asm9260_wdt_priv *priv)
>   			 tmp);
>   }
>
> -static int __init asm9260_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static int asm9260_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
>   	struct asm9260_wdt_priv *priv;
>   	struct watchdog_device *wdd;
> @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ static void asm9260_wdt_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	asm9260_wdt_disable(&priv->wdd);
>   }
>
> -static int __exit asm9260_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static int asm9260_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
>   	struct asm9260_wdt_priv *priv = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>
>
>