netdev - Question: Section mismatch warnings in drivers/net

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Message-ID: <201205021630.25233.hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2012 16:30:25 -0700
From:	H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@...ionengravers.com>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Question: Section mismatch warnings in drivers/net

Hello all,

I noticed a number of section mismatch warnings in various
drivers/net/ drivers. I was going to submit some patches to
clean them up but then saw these commits:

commit 948252cb9e01d65a89ecadf67be5018351eee15e
Author: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date:   Tue May 31 19:27:48 2011 -0700

    Revert "net: fix section mismatches"
    
    This reverts commit e5cb966c0838e4da43a3b0751bdcac7fe719f7b4.
    
    It causes new build regressions with gcc-4.2 which is
    pretty common on non-x86 platforms.
    
    Reported-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

commit e5cb966c0838e4da43a3b0751bdcac7fe719f7b4
Author: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Date:   Mon Apr 18 13:31:20 2011 +0000

    net: fix section mismatches
    
    Fix build warnings like the following:
    
    WARNING: drivers/net/built-in.o(.data+0x12434): Section mismatch in reference from the variable madge
    
    And add some consts to EISA device ID tables along the way.
    
    Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

Was the issue with the build regressions ever worked out? Would
patches to fix the section mismatches be appropriate now?

Regards,
Hartley
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