Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:07:44 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch 6/6] virtio: fix section mismatch warnings |
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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:27:26 +1030 Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:19:01 am Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > This patch fixes the following warnings by renaming the driver structures > > to be suffixed with _driver. > > > > WARNING: drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_balloon to the function .devexit.text:virtballoon_remove() > > > > WARNING: drivers/char/hw_random/virtio-rng.o(.data+0x88): Section mismatch in reference from the variable virtio_rng to the function .devexit.text:virtrng_remove() > > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> > > Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> > > Andrew, will you take these? >
umm, sure. But I wish I knew how the patch worked. Is there some magic sauce which moves a variable called foo_driver into a different section or what?
And if so, what was I doing when that got done :(
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