linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: musb: don't mark of_dev

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Message-ID: <20170426093037.GA31872@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:30:37 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Bin Liu <b-liu@...com>, Alexandre Bailon <abailon@...libre.com>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa-dev@...g-engineering.com>,
        Petr Kulhavy <petr@...ix.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: musb: don't mark of_dev_auxdata as initdata

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:04:53PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The probe function is not __init since it can be called for deferred
> probing or when unbinding/rebinding the device, and therefore it must
> not reference objects in __initdata, as pointed out by this link
> time warning:
> 
> WARNING: drivers/usb/musb/da8xx.o(.text+0x9d4): Section mismatch in reference from the function da8xx_probe() to the (unknown reference) .init.data:(unknown)
> 
> This removes the annotation.
> 
> Reported-by: Olof's autobuilder <olof@...om.net>
> Fixes: d6299b6efbf6 ("usb: musb: Add support of CPPI 4.1 DMA controller to DA8xx")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Now applied as I think Bin is offline for a bit.

thanks,

greg k-h