netdev - Re: [PATCH] BRIDGE : br_fdb_fini() should be __exit_refok instead of _

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Message-ID: <20071205074959.6f9ca8e4@shemminger-laptop>
Date:	Wed, 5 Dec 2007 07:49:59 -0500
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BRIDGE : br_fdb_fini() should be __exit_refok instead
 of __exit

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:41:24 +0100
Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com> wrote:

> Hi David
> 
> Building last net-2.6.25 git tree gave me this warning :
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x2a957): Section mismatch: reference to 
> .exit.text:br_fdb_fini (between 'br_init' and 'br_fdb_init')
> 
> This is because br_init() (marked __init) can call br_fdb_fini() (marked __exit).
> 
> I am not sure the following is the right fix, since __exit_refok is quite new, 
> and seldom used.
> 
> [PATCH] BRIDGE : br_fdb_fini() should be __exit_refok instead of __exit
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
> 

Andrew put a patch in his tree to just take off the __exit.
That seems like the easiest fix for a one line function.
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