Re: OSS sound core optionalization has __init/__exit mismatches

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Sat Sep 13 2008 - 11:19:22 EST


At Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:22:21 -0400,
Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> this commit:
> commit 1be95f401657e75984871c369d774d507e462939
> Author: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Aug 28 16:42:51 2008 +0200
> sound: make OSS sound core optional
>
> results in this failure:
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0xfbf0): Section mismatch in reference
> from the function _init_soundcore() to the function
> .exit.text:_cleanup_oss_soundcore()
> The function __init _init_soundcore() references
> a function __exit _cleanup_oss_soundcore().
> This is often seen when error handling in the init function
> uses functionality in the exit path.
> The fix is often to remove the __exit annotation of
> _cleanup_oss_soundcore() so it may be used outside an exit section.
>
> and can easily be seen in sound/sound_core.c:
> ...
> static int __init init_soundcore(void)
> {
> ...
> cleanup_oss_soundcore();
> ...
> }
> ...
> static void __exit cleanup_oss_soundcore(void)
> {
> ...
> }
> ...
> -mike

Thanks for reporting. It was already fixed on my sound-2.6.git.


Takashi
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