Re: 2.6.17-rc5 : Lots of warning in MODPOST stage

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Thu, 25 May 2006 11:19:05 +0300 Äsmail DÃnmez wrote:

> I am getting lots of warnings in MODPOST stage, not sure if this is known:
> 
> WARNING: drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.text: from .text between 'cleanup_module' (at offset 0x1e82) and
> 'ip2_loadmain'
> WARNING: drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.text: from .text between 'cleanup_module' (at offset 0x1ea8) and
> 'ip2_loadmain'
> WARNING: drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.text: from .text between 'ip2_loadmain' (at offset 0x2109) and
> 'set_irq'
> WARNING: drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.text: from .text between 'ip2_loadmain' (at offset 0x21e7) and
> 'set_irq'
> WARNING: drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.text: from .text between 'ip2_loadmain' (at offset 0x22a6) and
> 'set_irq'
> WARNING: drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.text: from .text between 'ip2_loadmain' (at offset 0x253d) and
> 'set_irq'
> WARNING: drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.text: from .text between 'ip2_loadmain' (at offset 0x25c1) and
> 'set_irq'

Hm, I don't see all of those.  However, Andrew has a patch for
(some of these) in -mm.  It fixes all of the warnings that I get.

[snip]

> WARNING: drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.o - Section mismatch:
> reference to .init.text: from .text between 'megaraid_probe_one' (at
> offset 0x161) and 'megaraid_detach_one'
> WARNING: drivers/scsi/wd7000.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.text: from .text between 'wd7000_detect' (at offset 0xa81) and
> 'wd7000_release'

Patches for these 2 will follow shortly (to linux-scsi m-l).

> WARNING: drivers/scsi/qla1280.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.data: from .text between 'qla1280_get_token' (at offset 0x2a16)
> and 'qla1280_probe_one'
> WARNING: drivers/scsi/qla1280.o - Section mismatch: reference to
> .init.data: from .text between 'qla1280_get_token' (at offset 0x2a3c)
> and 'qla1280_probe_one'

Weird, I don't get this one either, and I used your .config file.
However, I'll put some eyes on it.

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~Randy
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