Re: [PATCH] devtmpfs: Fix section mismatch on devtmpfsd()

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:36:11PM +0100, Grant Likely wrote:
> devtmpfsd_init() references setup_done which is __initdata, but
> devtmpfsd() is not an __init function.  The code is fine, because it
> is never referenced after discarding __init sections, but it leaves
> some additional code that can be discarded with the rest of __init and
> it causes gcc to complain with a section mismatch warning.

I have a simpler patch here that just removes the __initdata function,
which is simpler.

I hate the initdata stuff, it's almost always pointless...

Would that solve the problem for you as well?

thanks,

greg k-h
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