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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:27:12 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> To: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: modpost warning question On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > I'm seeing the following warning: > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to > .exit.text:gfar_mdio_exit (between 'gfar_init' and 'gfar_mdio_init') > > I don't understand why its not ok to access .exit.text from .init.text Several architectures discards .exit.text in the final linker script (arch/$(ARCH)/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S So any references to .exit.text will when a module is build-in result in a linker error because ld will flag it as an error when we reference a symbol in a discarded section. For the popular architectures (i386,x86_64) we discard .exit.text at runtime so here we do not see the error from ld (sadly). Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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