linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ide: icside: remove incorrect initconst annotation

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Date:	Sun, 20 Mar 2016 17:01:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: icside: remove incorrect initconst annotation

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Mon,  8 Feb 2016 15:31:45 +0100

> The icside_probe function can be called for hotplugged devices, so
> its reference to the __initconst icside_v6_port_info variable
> may be invalid, as Kbuild points out:
> 
> WARNING: drivers/ide/icside.o(.text+0x338): Section mismatch in reference from the function icside_probe()
>  to the (unknown reference) .init.rodata:(unknown)
> 
> Interestingly, this problem only shows up with clang but not
> with gcc, which optimizes out the __initconst variable.
> 
> This removes the incorrect annotation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Applied.