Re: kbuild: Section mismatch warnings

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Feb 17 2006 - 18:36:57 EST


Hi Adrian

> > 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)
> ...
>
Correct.
What I wanted was modpost to tell that the symbol being referenced in
the .data section was 'asus_hotk_add' and not just an offset after
asus_hotk_driver.

What is needed is a link from the RELOCATION RECORD to the symbol table.


Sam
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