Re: [PATCH] tty: n_hdlc: fix build on SPARC

[Randy Dunlap]

On 1/12/20 12:05 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 19:15:12 -0700
> 
>> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Fix tty driver build on SPARC by not using __exitdata.
>> It appears that SPARC does not support section .exit.data.
>>
>> Fixes these build errors:
>>
>> `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o
>> `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o
>> `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o
>> `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o
>>
>> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Fixes: 063246641d4a ("format-security: move static strings to const")
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'll add an .exit.data to arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S to fix this.
> 

Thanks.

-- 
~Randy