modpost warning question

2007-07-25 Thread Kumar Gala
I'm seeing the following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:gfar_mdio_exit (between 'gfar_init' and 'gfar_mdio_init') I don't understand why its not ok to access .exit.text from .init.text The following addresses the issue, however I don't

Re: modpost warning question

2007-07-25 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: I'm seeing the following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:gfar_mdio_exit (between 'gfar_init' and 'gfar_mdio_init') I don't understand why its not ok to access .exit.text

Re: modpost warning question

2007-07-25 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 25, 2007, at 2:27 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: I'm seeing the following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:gfar_mdio_exit (between 'gfar_init' and 'gfar_mdio_init') I

Re: modpost warning question

2007-07-25 Thread Sam Ravnborg
For the popular architectures (i386,x86_64) we discard .exit.text at runtime so here we do not see the error from ld (sadly). Fair point, wondering what we do with .exit on PPC, another thing for the list :) from: arch/ppc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S: /* .exit.text is discarded at runtime,

Re: modpost warning question

2007-07-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 02:14 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: I'm seeing the following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:gfar_mdio_exit (between 'gfar_init' and 'gfar_mdio_init') I don't understand why its not ok to access .exit.text from

Re: modpost warning question

2007-07-25 Thread chengong
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 09:27 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: I'm seeing the following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:gfar_mdio_exit (between 'gfar_init' and 'gfar_mdio_init')

Re: modpost warning question

2007-07-25 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 06:08:03PM +0800, chengong wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 09:27 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 02:14:12AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: I'm seeing the following warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1acdc): Section mismatch: reference to