Re: [PATCH] megaraid: fix section mismatch

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On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 16:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:33:16 -0800
> Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Change megaraid_pci_driver_g variable name so that it matches the modpost
> > whitelist that allows pointers to init text/data.
> > 
> > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1a8e30): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:megaraid_probe_one (between 'megaraid_pci_driver_g' and 'class_device_attr_megaraid_mbox_app_hndl')
> > 
> 
> All these patches fix references to possibly-discarded sections and hence
> fix possibly-serious bugs.  So all of them should go into 2.6.24.

Renaming a variable fixes a serious bug?  It quiets a spurious warning
from modpost, sure, but I hardly think that's -rc7 material.

James


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