RE: [PATCH] watchdog: hpwdt: eliminate section mismatch warning

From: Mingarelli, Thomas
Date: Tue Mar 08 2011 - 09:57:34 EST


Wim:


I ACK this patch.


Thanks,
Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Axel Lin [mailto:axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 9:50 PM
To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Mingarelli, Thomas; Wim Van Sebroeck; linux-watchdog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PATCH] watchdog: hpwdt: eliminate section mismatch warning

hpwdt_init_nmi_decoding() is called in hpwdt_init_one error handling,
thus remove the __devexit annotation of hpwdt_exit_nmi_decoding().

This patch fixes below warning:

WARNING: drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.o(.devinit.text+0x36f): Section mismatch in reference from the function hpwdt_init_one() to the function .devexit.text:hpwdt_exit_nmi_decoding()
The function __devinit hpwdt_init_one() references
a function __devexit hpwdt_exit_nmi_decoding().
This is often seen when error handling in the init function
uses functionality in the exit path.
The fix is often to remove the __devexit annotation of
hpwdt_exit_nmi_decoding() so it may be used outside an exit section.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
index d54d4ba..8cb2685 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ static int __devinit hpwdt_init_nmi_decoding(struct pci_dev *dev)
return 0;
}

-static void __devexit hpwdt_exit_nmi_decoding(void)
+static void hpwdt_exit_nmi_decoding(void)
{
unregister_die_notifier(&die_notifier);
if (cru_rom_addr)
@@ -726,7 +726,7 @@ static int __devinit hpwdt_init_nmi_decoding(struct pci_dev *dev)
return 0;
}

-static void __devexit hpwdt_exit_nmi_decoding(void)
+static void hpwdt_exit_nmi_decoding(void)
{
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HPWDT_NMI_DECODING */
--
1.7.2



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