Hi Uwe,
On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 9:50 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 07:36:31PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > As described in the added code comment, a reference to .exit.text is ok
> > for drivers registered via module_platform_driver_probe(). Make this
> > explicit to prevent the following section mismatch warnings
> >
> > WARNING: modpost: drivers/scsi/sun3_scsi: section mismatch in reference: sun3_scsi_driver+0x4 (section: .data) -> sun3_scsi_remove (section: .exit.text)
> > WARNING: modpost: drivers/scsi/sun3_scsi_vme: section mismatch in reference: sun3_scsi_driver+0x4 (section: .data) -> sun3_scsi_remove (section: .exit.text)
> >
> > that trigger on a Sun 3 allmodconfig build.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks!
> Seems I missed that one before posting 7308bf8a2c3d ("modpost: Enable
> section warning from *driver to .exit.text"). My excuse is that this
> driver isn't enabled for an ARCH=m68k allmodconfig build.
Understandable, as there are basically 5 classes of m68k kernels:
- Classic with MMU,
- Coldfire with MMU,
- Sun-3,
- Classic without MMU,
- Coldire without MMU.
As the last two consist of multiple single-platform kernels, they're
harder to do allmodconfig for.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
