On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dow...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi, > When I build the linux mainline 2.6.37-rc6, I get 3 section mismatch > warnings. What do they indicate? >
That tells us these 3 functions need to check for the right usage of '__init'. And which defconfig are you using? > $ make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi- uImage -j6 > LOCALVERSION="" CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1b70): Section mismatch in reference from the > variable etb_driver to the function .init.text:etb_probe() > The variable etb_driver references > the function __init etb_probe() > If the reference is valid then annotate the > variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable: > *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console, > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1bbc): Section mismatch in reference from the > variable etm_driver to the function .init.text:etm_probe() > The variable etm_driver references > the function __init etm_probe() > If the reference is valid then annotate the > variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable: > *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console, > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x3477c): Section mismatch in reference from the > variable twl_driver to the function .init.text:twl_probe() > The variable twl_driver references > the function __init twl_probe() > If the reference is valid then annotate the > variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable: > *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console, > I've sent a patch to twl driver maintainer to fix that. Thanks, -- Bryan Wu <bryan...@canonical.com> Kernel Developer +86.138-1617-6545 Mobile Ubuntu Kernel Team Canonical Ltd. www.canonical.com Ubuntu - Linux for human beings | www.ubuntu.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
