The following warning was seen building rack-meter.c WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xac784): Section mismatch in reference from the function rackmeter_shutdown() to the function .devexit.text:rackmeter_stop_cpu_sniffer() The function rackmeter_shutdown() references a function in an exit section. Often the function rackmeter_stop_cpu_sniffer() has valid usage outside the exit section and the fix is to remove the __devexit annotation of rackmeter_stop_cpu_sniffer.
This patch resolves the warning by removing the __devexit annotation from rackmeter_stop_cpu_sniffer(). Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> --- drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c b/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c index 39f660b..2637c13 100644 --- a/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c +++ b/drivers/macintosh/rack-meter.c @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ static void __devinit rackmeter_init_cpu_sniffer(struct rackmeter *rm) } } -static void __devexit rackmeter_stop_cpu_sniffer(struct rackmeter *rm) +static void rackmeter_stop_cpu_sniffer(struct rackmeter *rm) { cancel_delayed_work_sync(&rm->cpu[0].sniffer); cancel_delayed_work_sync(&rm->cpu[1].sniffer); _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev