The dmi_table is best accessed from the probe function, which is not an __init function. Drop the __initdata annotation from the dmi_table to avoid the section mismatch compiler warnings: WARNING: drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.o(.text+0x4871): Section mismatch in reference from the function pch_uart_init_port() to the variable .init.data:pch_uart_dmi_table Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> Cc: linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c index 271cc73..bc0aa08 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static const struct file_operations port_regs_ops = { }; #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */ -static struct dmi_system_id __initdata pch_uart_dmi_table[] = { +static struct dmi_system_id pch_uart_dmi_table[] = { { .ident = "CM-iTC", { -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html