In 2.6.17-rc5, the GNU linker gives me this message: WARNING: drivers/acpi/processor.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'acpi_processor_power_init' (at offset 0xec7) and 'acpi_processor_cst_has_changed' It is basically pointing out a potential bug on from processor_idle.c, on this line of code: dmi_check_system(processor_power_dmi_table); The problem here, is that processor_power_dmi_table is declared as __cpuinitdata, and is not guaranteed to exist when invoked from code other than __init code. The acpi_processor_power_init() routine is NOT marked as __init code. Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html