Theoretically, we could export conditionally-discarded code sections, such as .meminit*, if all the users can become modular under a certain condition. However, that would be difficult to control and such a tricky case has never occurred. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index f73835b8f1f9..8f4bddbbc52b 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@ static void check_export_symbol(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *elf, ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) == STT_LOPROC) s->is_func = true; - if (match(secname, PATTERNS(INIT_SECTIONS))) + if (match(secname, PATTERNS(ALL_INIT_SECTIONS))) warn("%s: %s: EXPORT_SYMBOL used for init symbol. Remove __init or EXPORT_SYMBOL.\n", mod->name, name); else if (match(secname, PATTERNS(ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS))) -- 2.40.1