Re: kbuild: Section mismatch warnings

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Fri Feb 17 2006 - 18:30:53 EST


On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:47:02PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>...
> Syntax:
> The offset refer to the relative offset from the referenced symbol.
> So
> WARNING: drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text from .data between 'asus_hotk_driver' (at offset 0xc0) and 'model_conf'
> should be read as:
>
> At 0xc0 bytes after asus_hotk_driver there is a reference to a symbol
> placed in the section .init.text.
>
> I did not find a way to look up the offending symbol but maybe some elf
> expert can help?
>...

I'm not an ELF expert, but simply checking all __init functions in this
files finds that this seems to be the following:

<-- snip -->

...
static struct acpi_driver asus_hotk_driver = {
.name = ACPI_HOTK_NAME,
.class = ACPI_HOTK_CLASS,
.ids = ACPI_HOTK_HID,
.ops = {
.add = asus_hotk_add,
.remove = asus_hotk_remove,
},
};
...
static int __init asus_hotk_add(struct acpi_device *device)
...

<-- snip -->

> Sam
>...

cu
Adrian

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