Re: HDD problem, software bug, bios bug, or hardware ?

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Aug 30 2012 - 06:12:20 EST


On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:31:43AM -0700, Adko Branil wrote:
> And one more thing i forgot - during kernel compilation i noticed this:
>
> WARNING: modpost: Found 1 section mismatch(es).
> To see full details build your kernel with:
> 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
>
>
>
> And when i compiled with "make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y", somewhere at the end was:
>
>
> WARNING: drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe.o(.init.text+0x1f): Section mismatch in reference from the function libfcoe_init() to the function .exit.text:fcoe_transport_exit()
> The function __init libfcoe_init() references
> a function __exit fcoe_transport_exit().
> 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
> fcoe_transport_exit() so it may be used outside an exit section.
>
>
>
> It should not be related with the crash during "make modules_install", as the default slackware kernel 3.2.27 also crashes during it, but it may be important for any other things, i don't know.

Nope, not important and is probably already fixed. If you don't get it
with 3.5.2, then it has been fixed.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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