Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:38:08 +0100 | From | Marcin Slusarz <> | Subject | Re: Section mismatch errors on current Linus tree |
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:16:41PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:03:30PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > > Hi > > I'm getting these warnings on current Linus tree (0ba6c33bcddc64a54b5f1c25a696c4767dc76292): > > > > LD vmlinux.o > > MODPOST vmlinux.o > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1a3c75): Section mismatch in reference from the function pci_scan_child_bus() to the function .devinit.text:pcibios_fixup_bus() > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1e333c): Section mismatch in reference from the function acpi_pci_root_add() to the function .devinit.text:pci_acpi_scan_root() > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.meminit.text+0xc5e): Section mismatch in reference from the function free_area_init_node() to the function .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_node() > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(__ksymtab+0x5400): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_pci_do_scan_bus to the function .devinit.text:pci_do_scan_bus() > ... > > Thanks for the report Marcin. > > We have a lot of section mismatch warnings at present. > I am personally awaiting merge of x86.git and first > batch from Andrew Morton before I start to fix them. > > This is for two reasons: > 1) I know several warnings are fixed in the two trees > 2) I expect these two merges to touch a lot of the files > where I need to fix the warnings. > > Can you please repost no earlier than when you see -rc1. I hope that > my builds get down below 25 warnings when we get there (> 120 warnings > when I did a full build last time). Ok, I'll do it after rc1.
Marcin
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