This reference is discarded, but can cause warnings when it refers to exit. Ignore for now. This is a workaround and can be removed once we get rid of -fno-toplevel-reorder Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 4061098..1f1b154 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1455,6 +1455,10 @@ static void check_section_mismatch(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf, to = find_elf_symbol(elf, r->r_addend, sym); tosym = sym_name(elf, to); + if (!strncmp(fromsym, "reference___initcall", + sizeof("reference___initcall")-1)) + return; + /* check whitelist - we may ignore it */ if (secref_whitelist(mismatch, fromsec, fromsym, tosec, tosym)) { -- 1.8.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html