Re: kbuild: Section mismatch warnings

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 04:09:21PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:47:02PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Background:
> > I have introduced a build-time check for section mismatch and it showed
> > up a great number of warnings.
> > Below is the result of the run on a 2.6.16-rc1 tree (which my kbuild
> > tree is based upon) based on a 'make allmodconfig'

Greg - related to this I have thought a bit on __devinit versus __init.
With HOTPLUG enabled __devinit becomes empty and thus violate any checks
for illegal references to .init.text.

Would it make sense to create a specific set of sections for __devinit
and frinds so we could check that __devinit sections are not referenced from .text.
This is another way to do the current __init checks but with HOTPLUG
enabled and I like the result to be consistent with and without HOTPLUG
enabled.

Also I see __devinit being used in different ways. See sound/oss/mad16
for instance.
Only a few functions are marked __devinit nad I wonder if any should be
marked __devinit at all in that file. But due to references to
__initdata current checks discovered a potential bug here already today.

	Sam
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