netdev - Re: WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/sundance.o(.text+0x2e87): Section mismatch in reference from the function sundance_probe1() to the variable .devinit.rodata:sundance_pci

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Date:	Wed, 5 Dec 2012 07:32:20 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>
Cc:	kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@...ginia.edu>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/sundance.o(.text+0x2e87):
 Section mismatch in reference from the function sundance_probe1() to the
 variable .devinit.rodata:sundance_pci_tbl

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 11:12:32AM +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> I"ll fix it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> On 12/5/12, kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
> > tree:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git
> > master
> > head:   193c1e478cc496844fcbef402a10976c95a634ff
> > commit: 64bc40de134bb5c7826ff384016f654219ed3956 dlink: remove __dev*
> > attributes
> > date:   27 hours ago
> > config: make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig
> >
> > All warnings:
> >
> > WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/dlink/sundance.o(.text+0x2e87): Section
> > mismatch in reference from the function sundance_probe1() to the variable
> > .devinit.rodata:sundance_pci_tbl
> > The function sundance_probe1() references
> > the variable __devinitconst sundance_pci_tbl.
> > This is often because sundance_probe1 lacks a __devinitconst
> > annotation or the annotation of sundance_pci_tbl is wrong.


No, no need to do this, it's fallout of the big dev* removal that is in
net-next right now, the warnings will go away when merged with my
driver-core-next tree which will happen in 3.8-rc1.

So please don't worry about it, it's a harmless message at the moment.

greg k-h
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