Re: [PATCH] Fix section mismatch: ata_sff_exit

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On 08/23/2010 10:18 PM, Luck, Tony wrote:
> This build error showed up in linux-next tag next-20100820 for ia64:
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x4a952): Section mismatch in reference from the function ata_init() to the function .exit.text:ata_sff_exit()
> The function __init ata_init() references
> a function __exit ata_sff_exit().
> This is often seen when error handling in the init function
> uses functionality in the exit path.
> The fix is often to remove the __exit annotation of
> ata_sff_exit() so it may be used outside an exit section.
> 
> Sure enough, dropping the __exit fixes the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Tejun: I didn't pin down which commit broke this ... but you seem
> to have a number of recent commits here.

It's the scsi transport addition.  It adds an init failure case where
ata_sff_exit() is called to undo initialization, so your fix is
correct.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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