On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:07:21PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:07:21 +0100 (BST) > To: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [MIPS] DEC: Fix modpost warning. > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > LD vmlinux > > SYSMAP System.map > > SYSMAP .tmp_System.map > > MODPOST vmlinux > > WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.data+0x2480): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'sercons' and 'ds_parms') > > > > Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > --- > > > > drivers/tc/zs.c | 6 +++--- > > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > It looks like a bogus warning -- I presume it comes from a reference from > "sercons" to serial_console_setup() -- but the driver is going away, so I > could not care less... Yes, the root cause was the reference to serial_console_setup. It's hard to teach modpost that this reference is bogus so I fixed the driver instead. Other console drivers had the same issue. Ralf
