linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the drm-misc tree

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Date:   Wed, 6 Apr 2022 03:45:49 +0200
From:   Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Intel Graphics <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        DRI <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Cc:     Robert Foss <robert.foss@...aro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the drm-misc tree

On 4/6/22 02:58, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi,

> After merging the drm-misc tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64
> allmodconfig) produced this warning:
> 
> WARNING: modpost: drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/chipone-icn6211.prelink.o(.exit.data+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __cfi_jt_cleanup_module to the function .init.text:cleanup_module()
> The variable __exitdata __cfi_jt_cleanup_module references
> a function __init cleanup_module().
> This is often seen when error handling in the exit function
> uses functionality in the init path.
> The fix is often to remove the __init annotation of
> cleanup_module() so it may be used outside an init section.
> 
> Introduced by commit
> 
>    8dde6f7452a1 ("drm: bridge: icn6211: Add I2C configuration support")
> 
> The chipone_exit function should not be marked __init.

Thanks, fix is submitted.

Sigh.