Hi Russell. I've been building all defconfigs for ARM on latest -linus tree and got the following results with respect to section mismatch warnings.
Unpatched: 105 section mismatch warnings Applied a path to ignore section mismatch warnings from variables named *_timer. Result: 39 section mismatch warnings. I will carry this patch in kbuild.git since it touches only modpost.c 39 looked like a managebale set of warnings so I took a closer look. With patches that I will post as follow-up for this mail: Result: 19 section mismatch warnings (where some are duplicates from more than one defconfig). The remaining warnings are the following: # This symbol is exported and marked __init. # Eiteher drop the export or drop the __init marking. o-arm-mx1ads/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-imx/built-in.o(__ksymtab+0x80): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:set_imx_fb_info (after '__ksymtab_set_imx_fb_info') # These are all almost trivial if one knows the device-model. I did not know enough about the devicemodel to fix them. # I suspect several symbols should NOT be marked __init since they are used in .add assignments and the like # or mayby __Devinit since they are used only in HOTPLUG scenarios. o-arm-ks8695/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-ks8695/built-in.o(.data+0x108): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:micrel_pci_map_irq (after 'micrel_pci') o-arm-lubbock/log.out:WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x39f2c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:pcmcia_lubbock_init (between 'pcmcia_probe' and 'sa1111_pcmcia_socket_suspend') o-arm-neponset/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-sa1100/built-in.o(.text+0x1748): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:sa1110_mb_disable (between 'neponset_init' and 'neponset_resume') o-arm-neponset/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-sa1100/built-in.o(.text+0x17ac): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:devices (between 'neponset_init' and 'neponset_resume') o-arm-neponset/log.out:WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x4e0a8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:pcmcia_neponset_init (between 'pcmcia_probe' and 'sa1111_pcmcia_socket_suspend') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/built-in.o(.text+0x80): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:s3c2410_dma_order (between 's3c2410_dma_add' and 's3c2410_pm_add') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2410/built-in.o(.text+0x84): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:s3c2410_dma_sel (between 's3c2410_dma_add' and 's3c2410_pm_add') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2412/built-in.o(.text+0x738): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:s3c2412_dma_sel (between 's3c2412_dma_add' and 's3c2412_pm_prepare') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2440/built-in.o(.text+0x4b8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:s3c2440_dma_order (between 's3c2440_dma_add' and 'anubis_nand_select') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2440/built-in.o(.text+0x4bc): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:s3c2440_dma_sel (between 's3c2440_dma_add' and 'anubis_nand_select') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2443/built-in.o(.text+0x1ac): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:s3c2443_add_sub (between 's3c2443_irq_add' and 's3c2443_irq_wdtac97_mask') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2443/built-in.o(.text+0x1c8): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:s3c2443_add_sub (between 's3c2443_irq_add' and 's3c2443_irq_wdtac97_mask') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2443/built-in.o(.text+0x1e4): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:s3c2443_add_sub (between 's3c2443_irq_add' and 's3c2443_irq_wdtac97_mask') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2443/built-in.o(.text+0x200): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:s3c2443_add_sub (between 's3c2443_irq_add' and 's3c2443_irq_wdtac97_mask') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2443/built-in.o(.text+0x21c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:s3c2443_add_sub (between 's3c2443_irq_add' and 's3c2443_irq_wdtac97_mask') o-arm-s3c2410/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/mach-s3c2443/built-in.o(.text+0xf0c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:s3c2443_dma_sel (after 's3c2443_dma_add') # Assembler stuff. It looked to me like __INIT was used wrongly but then I did not feel confident enough to patch it up - and I cannot test it. o-arm-realview-smp/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/vfp/built-in.o(.data+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:vfp_testing_entry (between 'vfp_vector' and 'vfp_notifier_block') o-arm-versatile/log.out:WARNING: arch/arm/vfp/built-in.o(.data+0x0): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:vfp_testing_entry (between 'vfp_vector' and 'vfp_notifier_block') Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/