[PATCH 04/11] ARM: davinci: davinci_cfg_reg cannot be init

Sekhar Nori nsekhar at ti.com
Mon Feb 16 07:37:02 PST 2015


On Friday 13 February 2015 01:12 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> davinci_cfg_reg gets called from a lot of locations that
> might get called after the init section has been discarded,
> so the function itself must not be marked __init either.
> 
> The kernel build currently warns about this with lots of
> messages like:
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x24c): Section mismatch in reference from the function dm365evm_mmc_configure() to the function .init.text:davinci_cfg_reg()
> The function dm365evm_mmc_configure() references
> the function __init davinci_cfg_reg().
> This is often because dm365evm_mmc_configure lacks a __init
> annotation or the annotation of davinci_cfg_reg is wrong.
> 
> This removes the extraneous __init_or_module annotation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman at deeprootsystems.com>

Acked-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar at ti.com>

Thanks,
Sekhar




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