RE: Different WARNING:drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe.o(.init.text+0x1a): Section mismatch in referencefrom the function init_module() to the function.exit.text:fcoe_transport_exit()

From: Zou, Yi
Date: Mon Jun 04 2012 - 19:11:01 EST


>
> > However, fcoe_transport_exit() is called only in module *exit* path by
> the
> > module exit func libfcoe_exit(), not in the init_module error path. Let
> me
> > take a objdump of the libfcoe.o to see where your above section
> mismatch warning
> > is from. Is this on 32bit only?
>
> static int __init libfcoe_init(void)
> {
> int rc = 0;
>
> rc = fcoe_transport_init();
> if (rc)
> return rc;
>
> rc = fcoe_sysfs_setup();
> if (rc)
> fcoe_transport_exit(); <=============
>
> return rc;
> }
>
> It is called from __init context here.
>
>
>
>
> static void __exit libfcoe_exit(void)
> {
> fcoe_sysfs_teardown();
> fcoe_transport_exit(); <==============
> }
>
> And from __exit context here.
> This is -rc1.
>
> Sam
Ah...haven't pulled the rc1 yet, which was why I did not see the this.
Anyway, yeah you are right, dropping __exit should fix the problem.

thanks,
yi

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