WARNING: modpost: drivers/tty/serial/ip22zilog: section mismatch in reference: ip22zilog_probe+0xf4 (section: .text) -> ip22zilog_prepare (section: .init.text)

From: kernel test robot

Date: Mon Feb 09 2026 - 19:11:15 EST


tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head: 05f7e89ab9731565d8a62e3b5d1ec206485eeb0b
commit: 3fc36ae6abd263a5cbf93b2f5539eccc1fc753f7 tty: serial: ip22zilog: Use platform device for probing
date: 6 months ago
config: mips-randconfig-r133-20260209 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260210/202602100850.UaDWSQbk-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: clang version 22.0.0git (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 9b8addffa70cee5b2acc5454712d9cf78ce45710)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260210/202602100850.UaDWSQbk-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202602100850.UaDWSQbk-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>, old ones prefixed by <<):

WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: indy_sc_init+0x8 (section: .text.unlikely.) -> indy_sc_probe (section: .init.text)
>> WARNING: modpost: drivers/tty/serial/ip22zilog: section mismatch in reference: ip22zilog_probe+0xf4 (section: .text) -> ip22zilog_prepare (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: drivers/tty/serial/ip22zilog: section mismatch in reference: ip22zilog_probe+0xf8 (section: .text) -> ip22zilog_prepare (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: drivers/tty/serial/ip22zilog: section mismatch in reference: ip22zilog_probe+0x100 (section: .text) -> ip22zilog_prepare (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: drivers/tty/serial/ip22zilog: section mismatch in reference: ip22zilog_probe+0x108 (section: .text) -> ip22zilog_prepare (section: .init.text)

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