[PATCH] omap2+: pm: Fix section mismatch in pm_dbg_init()
Kevin Hilman
khilman at ti.com
Mon Jun 20 18:18:19 EDT 2011
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:09:39PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
>> Sanjeev Premi <premi at ti.com> writes:
>>
>> > Fix the section mismatch warning:
>> >
>> > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x21118): Section mismatch
>> > in reference from the function pm_dbg_init() to the
>> > function .init.text:pwrdms_setup()
>> > The function pm_dbg_init() references
>> > the function __init pwrdms_setup().
>> > This is often because pm_dbg_init lacks a __init
>> > annotation or the annotation of pwrdms_setup is wrong.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Premi <premi at ti.com>
>> > ---
>> > Applies to current linux-omap master
>>
>> A previous commit just removed the __init annotation here because of a
>> different conflict with the regset init. The regset code is now
>> removed in my queue for 3.1, so this patch is fine on top of that
>> series.
>>
>> Queueing for v3.1 (branch: for_3.1/pm-misc)
>
> Sigh. Please put some thought into it first and stop applying patches
> without first doing some analysis and test-buliding the thing. Otherwise
> you're going to be applying patches for ever which add and delete
> these things.
>
> If you make pm_dbg_init() __init, then you also have to make
> pm_dbg_regset_init() __init too. What about the callers to
> pm_dbg_regset_init() - are these marked __init or not? If not,
> they too will have to be marked __init, etc.
>
> If that's not possible, then the __init attribute must be deleted
> from pwrdms_setup().
As I mentioned above, the regset code (pm_dbg_regset_*) is being removed
in a pending series I already have queued.
Thus, adding back the __init here is fine.
It was thought about and test built.
Kevin
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