[PATCH 2/2] firmware: arm_scmi: remove __exit annotation

Sudeep Holla sudeep.holla at arm.com
Mon Sep 20 04:06:32 PDT 2021


On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 12:02:52PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
>
> virtio_scmi_exit() is only called from __exit function, so the annotation
> is correct, but when the driver is built-in, the section gets discarded
> and the reference from a callback pointer causes a link-time error:
>
> `virtio_scmi_exit' referenced in section `.rodata' of drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/virtio.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/virtio.o
>
> I could not figure out a better workaround, so let's just remove that
> annotation even if it wastes a couple of bytes in .text.
>

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Applied to sudeep.holla/linux (for-next/scmi), thanks!

[2/2] firmware: arm_scmi: remove __exit annotation
      https://git.kernel.org/sudeep.holla/c/1cd73200da

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Regards,
Sudeep



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