On Thursday 26 December 2013, Randy Dunlap wrote: >On 12/26/13 10:58, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> In my attempts to find a 64 bit or PAE enabled kernel to run on my >> older ASUS M2N-SLI Delux mobo, I saw a note go by during the build >> that there were 9 section-miss-matches. >> >> But when I applied the cli option recommended to the make lines in my >> makeit script, I only got these 2 squawks. >> >> WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xcce): Section >> mismatch in reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the >> function >> .init.text:DepcaSignature() >> The function depca_isa_probe() references >> the function __init DepcaSignature(). >> This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init >> annotation or the annotation of DepcaSignature is wrong. >> >> WARNING: drivers/net/ethernet/amd/depca.o(.text+0xd22): Section >> mismatch in reference from the function depca_isa_probe() to the >> function >> .init.text:depca_hw_init() >> The function depca_isa_probe() references >> the function __init depca_hw_init(). >> This is often because depca_isa_probe lacks a __init >> annotation or the annotation of depca_hw_init is wrong. >> >> I am not capable to fixing these, too many years & miles on the wet >> ram, but I thought that maybe someone might be interested. > >This driver was removed from the kernel source tree on Jan. 16, 2013. > >Sure, it's still in 3.8.x so those section mismatches could be fixed, >but most section mismatches have been recently fixed by eliminating >CONFIG_HOTPLUG and removing the use of all __devinit* and __devexit*. > >Do you use this driver? is it barfing? >or you just happened to build it and saw these warnings?
The latter Randy, and I can recall when they were moderately important in the 2.6 days. FWIW, I just built, but haven't reboot tested yet, a 3.12.0, with no reported errors... But now kmail is back to freezing its composer for 2 or 3 minutes at a time while running 3.8.3. 3.8.2 didn't do that nearly as often. Thanks, Randy Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> BOFH excuse #4: static from nylon underwear A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
