On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:10:45PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > This patch stops "modpost" from issuing erroneous modpost warnings on ARM > builds, which it's been doing since since maybe last summer. A canonical > example would be driver method table entries: > > WARNING: <path> - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:<name>_remove > from .data after '$d' (at offset 0x4) > > That "$d" symbol is generated by tools conformant with ARM ABI specs; in > this case it's a symbol **in the middle of** a "<name>_driver" struct. > > The erroneous warnings appear to be issued because "modpost" whitelists > references from "<name>_driver" data into init and exit sections ... but > doesn't know should also include those "$d" mapping symbols, which are > not otherwise associated with "<name>_driver" symbols. > > This patch prevents the modpost symbol lookup code from ever returning > those mapping symbols, so it will return a whitelisted symbol instead. > Then things work as expected. > > Now to revert various code-bloating "fixes" that got merged because of > this modpost bug.... > > Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And if I get my dev machine operational before akpm merges this I will take care of having it merged. - 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/
