Is it OK for section .parainstructions to reference exit.text? I'm seeing: WARNING: drivers/net/hamradio/scc.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .parainstructions after '' (at offset 0x0) WARNING: drivers/net/hamradio/scc.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .parainstructions after '' (at offset 0x8) If that's OK, we need a small patch to modpost, as below. --- ~Randy From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap at oracle.com> Section .parainstructions should not warn about section mismatches. WARNING: drivers/net/hamradio/scc.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .parainstructions after '' (at offset 0x0) WARNING: drivers/net/hamradio/scc.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .parainstructions after '' (at offset 0x8) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap at oracle.com> --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.6.19-git17.orig/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ linux-2.6.19-git17/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -997,6 +997,7 @@ static int exit_section_ref_ok(const cha "__bug_table", /* used by powerpc for BUG() */ ".exitcall.exit", ".eh_frame", + ".parainstructions", ".stab", "__ex_table", ".fixup",
