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Message-Id: <20181214.132300.832860946069084294.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:23:00 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     arnd@...db.de
Cc:     mcuos.com@...il.com, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] w90p910_ether: remove incorrect __init annotation

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:45:07 +0100

> The get_mac_address() function is normally inline, but when it is
> not, we get a warning that this configuration is broken:
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4aff00): Section mismatch in reference from the function w90p910_ether_setup() to the function .init.text:get_mac_address()
> The function w90p910_ether_setup() references
> the function __init get_mac_address().
> This is often because w90p910_ether_setup lacks a __init
> 
> Remove the __init to make it always do the right thing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Actually I think we can validly mark w90p910_ether_setup() and
w90p910_probe() with appropriate init tagging.  None of these
functions are invoked outside of the probing paths.