Hi Sudip,
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
<sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 04:53:23PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1056606): Section mismatch in reference from the function parkbd_attach() to the function .init.text:parkbd_allocate_serio()
>> The function parkbd_attach() references
>> the function __init parkbd_allocate_serio().
>> This is often because parkbd_attach lacks a __init
>> annotation or the annotation of parkbd_allocate_serio is wrong.
>>
>> Commit 33ca8ab97cbb676d ("Input: parkbd - use parallel port device
>> model") dropped the __init attribute from the sole caller of
>> parkbd_allocate_serio(), but forgot to remove it from
>> parkbd_allocate_serio() itself.
>>
>> Fixes: 33ca8ab97cbb676d ("Input: parkbd - use parallel port device model")
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I don't see this with allmodconfig on i386 or on x86_64. How did you get
> this warning? But anyway, looking at the code, i did miss attribute.
It depends on your compiler version. If your compiler decides to inline
parkbd_allocate_serio(), you won't see that warning.
> Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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