[PATCH] tty: serial: msm: Fix section mismatch warning

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Tue Jun 3 14:17:38 PDT 2014


On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 02:04:43PM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 03:13:22PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>> >> WARNING: drivers/tty/built-in.o(.data+0x3544): Section mismatch in
>> >> reference from the variable msm_platform_driver to the function
>> >> .init.text:msm_serial_probe()
>> >> The variable msm_platform_driver references
>> >> the function __init msm_serial_probe()
>> >> If the reference is valid then annotate the
>> >> variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
>> >> *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console
>> >
>> > Where is this mismatch showing up at?  3.15-rc8, 3.16-rc1?  Somewhere
>> > older or else?
>>
>> Linus' next branch, it was merged through arm-soc. I didn't notice it
>> in time to fix it before we sent to Linus. :(
>
> Ok, do you want to take this patch then?  I don't mind taking it through
> my tree, but it will have to wait until after 3.16-rc1 is out.  It's up
> to you.

I've got a handful of fixes we're queueing for the second batch of
merges, and I can add it to there.


-Olof



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