[PATCH] ARM: S3C64XX: Fix section mismatch from cpufreq init

Mark Brown broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com
Wed Mar 16 05:49:59 EDT 2011


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:38:11AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:58:13PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > we don't appear to have annotations which allow us to mark that it'll
> > never be called after system init, causing the linker consistency

> Actually this is warning is a false positive.  There is a section
> mismatch, but it is never a problem because the .init callback is only
> called by cpufreq_register_driver. To get rid of the warning the right
> fix is to remove the .init callback from struct cpufreq_driver and
> change the prototype of cpufreq_register_driver to

That's what I said above, pretty much.  Ideally we'd have a way of
annotating the call sites so that the linker infrastructure rather than
having to faff about splitting the structures like this.



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