Re: [PATCH 2/7] console: fix section mismatch warning in vgacon.c

From: Antonino A. Daplas
Date: Sun Jul 22 2007 - 18:55:41 EST


On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 12:20 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 23:27 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > Fix following section mismatch warning:
> > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x121e62): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem (between 'vgacon_startup' and 'vgacon_scrolldelta')
> > >
> > > Browsing the code it seems that vgacon_scrollback_startup() is only
> > > called during the init phase so the reference to the .init.text
> > > section is OK.
> > > Teach modpost not to warn using ___init_refok.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I assume the check for `vga_init_done' in vgacon_startup() is sufficient to
> prevent vgacon_scrollback_startup() from being called later due to
> (un)bind_con_driver()?
>

Yes.

Tony


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/