On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:52:10 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 09:29:11AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > Hi Sam, > > > > I was looking at these warnings (on 2.6.17-rc1-git8): > > > > WARNING: drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .data between 'twa_driver' (at offset 0x18) and 'twa_error_table' > > WARNING: drivers/scsi/3w-xxxx.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .data between 'tw_driver' (at offset 0x18) and 'tw_sense_table' > > WARNING: drivers/scsi/gdth.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:gdth_detect from .data between 'driver_template' (at offset 0x270) and 'async_cache_tab' > > > > I either don't see a problem or I'm having trouble reading/decoding > > the warning messages. Could you look at these 3 sometime? > > > WARNING: drivers/scsi/3w-9xxx.o > twa_driver contains a reference to twa_pci_tbl which is marked > devinitdata. > > Darren Jenkins already pointed this pattern out but somehow I lost > the patch (not applied). > It is here: [snip] > > WARNING: drivers/scsi/gdth.o > >From modpost.c: > * Pattern 2: > * Many drivers utilise a *_driver container with references to > * add, remove, probe functions etc. > * These functions may often be marked __init and we do not want to > * warn here. > * the pattern is identified by: > * tosec = .init.text | .exit.text > * fromsec = .data > * atsym = *_driver, *_ops, *_probe, *probe_one > **/ > > Shall we include *_template in this list? I would say yes. > The most common name seems to be the ambigous driver_template. > Some scsi drievers has been a bit more specific and used > <driver>_template. > In total 76 drivers. > > 16 drivers uses: *_sht for their scsi_host_template variables. > And one uses NCR_Q720_tpnt. > > I will push the 'lost' patch later today. + I don't see the inconsistencies that James mentioned. Thanks. --- ~Randy - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
