The patch was suggested by the following modpost warning: WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(.data+0xa3900): Section mismatch in reference from the variable mxs_dma_driver to the function .init.text:mxs_dma_probe() The variable mxs_dma_driver references the function __init mxs_dma_probe() If the reference is valid then annotate the variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable: *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console Co-developed-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dario Binacchi <dario.binacchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- (no changes since v1) drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c b/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c index 18f8154b859b..a01953e06048 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/mxs-dma.c @@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ static int __init mxs_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) return 0; } -static struct platform_driver mxs_dma_driver = { +static struct platform_driver mxs_dma_driver __initdata = { .driver = { .name = "mxs-dma", .of_match_table = mxs_dma_dt_ids, -- 2.32.0