[PATCH 2/2] kbuild, modpost: fix "unexpected non-allocatable" warning with SUSE gcc

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Sun May 03 2009 - 16:17:37 EST


Jean reported that he saw one warning for each module like the one below:
WARNING: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.o (.comment.SUSE.OPTs): unexpected non-allocatable section.

The warning appeared with the improved version of the
check of the flags in the sections.

That check already ignored sections named ".comment" - but SUSE store
additional info in the comment section and has named it in a SUSE
specific way. Therefore modpost failed to ignore the section.

The fix is to extend the pattern so we ignore all sections
that start with the name ".comment.".

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index a5c17db..268d457 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ int match(const char *sym, const char * const pat[])

/* sections that we do not want to do full section mismatch check on */
static const char *section_white_list[] =
- { ".comment", ".debug*", ".stab*", ".note*", ".got*", ".toc*", NULL };
+ { ".comment*", ".debug*", ".stab*", ".note*", ".got*", ".toc*", NULL };

/*
* This is used to find sections missing the SHF_ALLOC flag.
--
1.6.3.rc3.40.g75b44

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