[PATCH] ARM: davinci/da850-evm: fix section mismatch

Sekhar Nori nsekhar at ti.com
Thu Apr 26 14:21:16 EDT 2012


Hi Uwe,

On 3/31/2012 1:59 AM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> This fixes:
> 	WARNING: arch/arm/mach-davinci/built-in.o(.text+0x2d84): Section mismatch in reference from the function da850_evm_ui_expander_setup() to the (unknown reference) .init.data:(unknown)
> 	The function da850_evm_ui_expander_setup() references
> 	the (unknown reference) __initdata (unknown).
> 	This is often because da850_evm_ui_expander_setup lacks a __initdata
> 	annotation or the annotation of (unknown) is wrong.
> 
> Note this is a real issue because if the tca6416 driver only binds when
> the init sections are already discarded da850_evm_ui_expander_setup is
> called when da850_evm_devices might already be overwritten.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

Thanks for the patch. I am queuing this for v3.5 since the tca6416
driver is set to Y by default when DA850 EVM is selected. So I suspect
users will mostly remain unaffected by the bug.

Thanks,
Sekhar



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